1655 in literature - Definition and Overview

See also: 1654 in literature, other events of 1655, 1656 in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• Jeremy Taylor is imprisoned for four months at Chepstow Castle.
• Thomas Stanley begins his History of Philosophy.

New Books

• Elenchus geomeiriae Hobbianae - an attack on the work of Thomas Hobbes by John Wallis
• Porta Mosis by Edward Pococke
• Second edition of The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

Births

• January 1 - Christian Thomasius, philosopher

Deaths

• February 25 - Daniel Heinsius, poet
• July 28 - Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, himself the subject of a famous play by Edmond Rostand
• September 7 - François Tristan l'Hermite, dramatist
• October 24 - Pierre Gassendi, philosopher