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| 1621 |
| | | John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's | |
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| 1623 |
| | | John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio | |
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| 1633 |
| | | George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously | |
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| 1637 |
| | | Pierre Corneille's play Le Cid, popular with Paris audiences, hinges on the conflict between duty and love | |
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| 1637 |
| | | John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King | |
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| 1644 |
| | | In his Principles of Philosophy Descartes gives priority to reason, summed up in his famous phrase cogito ergo sum | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1653 |
| | | Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler | |
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| 1660 |
| | | On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary | |
|  | First page of Pepys's diary
Magdalene College, Cambridge
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| 1667 |
| | | French dramatist Jean Racine's first great success, Andromaque, finds tragic drama in a quadrangle of love | |
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