Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works
Other
- Pedro de Espinosa, editor, Flores de poetas ilustres (anthology), Spain
- François de Malherbe, Prière pour le roi Henri le Grand, allant en Limousin, because of this poem, he became the poet laureate of the French Court
- Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye:
- Discours pour servir de Préface sur le Sujet de la Satyre published from 1604 through this year
- LâÂÂArt poétique de Vauquelin de la Fresnaye : où lâÂÂon peut remarquer la Perfection et le Défaut des Anciennes et des Modernes Poésies ("The Poetic Art of Vauquelin de la Fresnaye: where one can observe the Perfection and Failure of Ancient and Modern Poems") written beginning in 1574 at the request of Henry III of France, first published this year, criticism, France
Births
- March 28 – Nishiyama SÃ
Âin 西山å®Âå , born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豠(died 1682), Japanese early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga (comical renga) poet, founder of the Danrin ("talkative forest") school of haikai poetry
- June – Thomas Randolph (died 1635), English poet and dramatist
- July 29 – Simon Dach (died 1659), Prussian German lyrical poet and hymn writer
- November 4 – William Habington (died 1654), English poet
- Also:
- Peter Hausted (died 1644), English playwright, poet and preacher
- Sor Marcela de San Félix (died 1688), Spanish nun, poet and dramatist, illegitimate daughter of Lope de Vega
- William Mercer (died 1675), Scottish poet and army officer
- Lady Hester Pulter, born Hester Ley (died 1678), Irish-born English poet
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