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Events edit
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Works published edit
Great Britain edit
- John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law[1]
- Phineas Fletcher, 'Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger[1]
- Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge[1]
- Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
- Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished[1]
- Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht[1]
- George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past (see also Haleluiah 1641)[1]
Other edit
- Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares[2]
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 30 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (died 1687), English statesman and poet
- Bahinabai (died 1700), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
- François Colletet (died 1680), French
- Zbigniew Morsztyn (died 1689), Polish poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
- February 3 – Simon Goulart (born 1543) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet[3]
- February 5 (bur.) – Christopher Middleton, (born c. 1560), English poet and translator
- August 1 – Juraj Baraković (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
- September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
- October 16 – François de Malherbe (born 1555), French[4]
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b c d e f Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Chaffee-Sorace, Diane, Góngora's poetic textual tradition: An analysis of selected variants, versions and imitations of his shorter poems, p 3, London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1988, retrieved via Google Books on July 18, 2009
- ^ "Switzerland"article, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, Volume XXVI, p 265, retrieved via Google Books May 11, 2009. 2009-05-13.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications