Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Thomas Heywood:
- The Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells, has the much-quoted passage "Mellifluous Shakes-peare, whose inchanting Quill/Commanded Mirth or Passion" ...
- Philocothonista; or, The Drunkard, Opened, Dissected, and Anatomized
- Francis Quarles, Emblemes
- Joseph Rutter, The Shepheard's Holy-Day: A pastorall tragi-comaedie
- George Wither, A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne, with emblems printed from engravings originally produced by Crispijn van de Passe the Elder for Gabriel Rollenhagen's Nucleus Emblematorum 1611–1613
Other
Births
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March – Thomas Randolph (born 1605), English poet and dramatist
- April 7 – Leonard Digges (born 1588), English poet and translator
- April 25 – Alessandro Tassoni (born 1565), Italian
- July 28 – Richard Corbet (born 1582), English
- August 7 – Friedrich Spee (born 1591), German Jesuit and poet
- August 27 – Lope de Vega (born 1562), Spanish playwright and poet
- October 18 – Jean de Schelandre (born c. 1585), French
- Nef'i (born 1582?), Ottoman Turkish
- Shen Yixiu (born 1590), Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaowan
See also
Notes