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

Events

Works published

Works incorrectly dated this year

• John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, published 1646, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, notwithstanding the book's title page^[1]

Births

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

• April 11 – Juan del Valle y Caviedes (died 1697), Spanish-born Peruvian poet and author

Deaths

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

• March 10 – William Strode (born c.1602), English poet
• April 3 (bur.) – Emilia Lanier, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (born 1569), English
• July 7 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (born 1569), German officer and poet
• July 13 – Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
• August 28 – Hugo Grotius (born 1583), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet
• August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini (born 1566), Italian
• September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo (born 1580), Spanish nobleman, politician and Golden Age poet
• William Browne (born 1590), English pastoral poet
• Feng Menglong (born 1574), Chinese writer and poet

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