Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events edit
- English poet Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet presented with the Beaumont Baronetcy, of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester
Works published edit
Great Britain edit
- Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt[1]
- Phineas Fletcher, Locustae, in Latin with English paraphrasing[1]
- Thomas May, translator, Lucan's Pharsalia; or, The Civill Warres of Rome, between Pompey the Great, and Julius Caesar, translated from Latin, completed in 10 books (first three translated books published first in 1626; see also A Continuation 1630)[1]
- Richard Niccols, The Beggers Ape, published anonymously[1]
Other edit
- Gabriel Bocángel, Rimas ("Verses"), containing both ballads and sonnets; Spain[2]
- Luis de Góngora (died May 24), Works in verse by the Spanish Homer, collected by Juan López de Vicuña, published posthumously; includes numerous sonnets, odes, ballads, songs for guitar, La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea, Las Soledades and other long poems; Spain
- François de Malherbe and others, Recueil des plus beaux vers des poètes de ce temps, with many poems by Malherbe and his acknowledged disciples; France[3]
- John of the Cross (died 1591), Spiritual Canticle (Cántico Espiritual), Spain, largely written in 1577, first published in its original language, in Brussels
Births edit
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Nicolò Minato (died 1698), Italian poet, librettist and impresario
- Walter Pope (died 1714), English astronomer and poet
Deaths edit
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 19 – John Beaumont (born 1583), English playwright and poet
- May 24 – Luis de Góngora (born 1561), Spanish lyric poet
- May 26 – Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (born 1581), English countess, minor poet, and major patron of poets
- July 4 (bur.) – Thomas Middleton (born 1580), English playwright and poet
- July 9 – Dirk Rafaelsz Camphuysen (born 1586), Dutch painter, poet and theologian
- October – Bernardo de Balbuena (born 1561), Spanish-born Latin American poet
- Also:
- Charles Best (born 1570), English poet, writer of A Sonnet of the Moon
- Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (born 1556), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
- Cormac Mac Con Midhe (born unknown), Irish poet
- Thomas Seget (born 1569), Scottish poet who wrote in Latin
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Hamos, Andrea Warren, "Bocángel y Unzueta, Gabriel", article, p 221, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 5, 2011.
- ^ France, Peter, ed. (1993). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.