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- John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton
Works
edit- Nicholas Breton, A Divine Poeme[1]
- Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
- Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune[1]
- Robert Jones:
- Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus[1]
- Thomas Morley:
- William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr
- John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham[1]
Other
edit- Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques ("Collection of Poetic Works"), France[2]
Births
edit- August 22 – Georges de Scudéry (died 1667), French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry
- Also:
- John Earle born about this year (died 1665), English bishop, writer and poet[1]
- Antonio Enríquez Gómez (died 1661), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
- Saib Tabrizi (died 1677), Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel
Deaths
edit- April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd (born 1562), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
- By May – Geoffrey Whitney (born 1548), English poet
- August 4 – Edward Grant (born 1548), English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School
- About this year – Thomas Nashe (born 1567), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist