1644 in poetry

This article covers 1644 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

Great Britain

• John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published
• Francis Quarles:
• Barnabas and Boanerges: Or, wine and oyle for afflicted soules, Part 2 also published this year in an unauthorized edition as Barnabas and Boanerges; both parts published together under the title Judgement and Mercie for Afflicted Soules 1646
• The Shepheards Oracle

Other

• Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Pegnesische Schäfergedicht

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Matsuo Bashō (died 1694), famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, especially Haiku
• Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (died 1723), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• Frances Norton, Lady Norton (died 1731), English poetry religious poet and prose writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Nicholas Bourbon (born 1574), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
• Peter Hausted (born 1605), playwright, poet, preacher
• Geoffrey Keating (born 1569), Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
• Rhys Prichard (born 1579), Welsh language poet and a vicar
• Francis Quarles (born 1592), English
• George Sandys (born 1578), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Church of England Archbishop Edwin Sandys
• Luís Vélez de Guevara (born 1579), Spanish dramatist, poet, and novelist

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War

Notes