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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Great Britain
English poetry
The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

  • Nicholas Breton
    Nicholas Breton
    Nicholas Breton , English poet and novelist, belonged to an old family settled at Layer Breton, Essex.-Life:...

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    • The Honour of Valour
    • The Soules Immortall Crowne
  • Samuel Daniel
    Samuel Daniel
    Samuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...

    , Certaine Small Poems Lately Printed
  • John Davies of Hereford
    John Davies of Hereford
    John Davies of Hereford was a writing-master and an Anglo-Welsh poet. He is usually known as John Davies of Hereford in order to distinguish him from others of the same name....

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    • Humours Heav'n on Earth
    • Wittes Pilgrimage (by Poeticall Essaies)
  • Robert Jones
    Robert Jones (composer)
    Robert Jones was an English lutenist and composer, the most prolific of the English lute song composers ....

    , Ultimum Vale
  • Samuel Rowlands
    Samuel Rowlands
    Samuel Rowlands , English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the development of popular literature and social life...

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    • Hell's Broke Loose, on John of Leiden
      John of Leiden
      John of Leiden , was an Anabaptist leader from the Dutch city of Leiden. He was the illegitimate son of a Dutch mayor, and a tailor's apprentice by trade.-Life:...

      , a Dutch Anabaptist
    • Humors Antique Faces, published anonymously
  • Joshua Sylvester
    Joshua Sylvester
    Joshua Sylvester was an English poet.-Biography:Sylvester was the son of a Kentish clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at King Edward VI School, Southampton, where he gained a knowledge of French...

    , translator, Bartas: his Devine Weekes and Works Translated, translated from Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas
    Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
    Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas was a French poet. A Huguenot, he served under Henry of Navarre. He is known as an epic poet. La Sepmaine; ou, Creation du monde was a hugely influential hexameral work, relating the creation of the world and the history of man...

    ; includes previously published translations
  • Peter Woodhouse, The Flea

Other

  • Pedro de Espinosa, editor, Flores de poetas ilustres (anthology), Spain
    Spanish poetry
    Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

  • François de Malherbe
    François de Malherbe
    François de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.-Life:Born in Le-Locheur , his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.He was the eldest son of...

    , Prière pour le roi Henri le Grand, allant en Limousin, because of this poem, he became the poet laureate of the French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

     Court
  • Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye
    Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye
    Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye was a French poet born at the château of La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage in Normandy in 1536....

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    • Discours pour servir de Préface sur le Sujet de la Satyre published from 1604
      1604 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir William Alexander:** Aurora** A Paraenesis to the Prince...

       through this year
    • L’Art poétique de Vauquelin de la Fresnaye : où l’on peut remarquer la Perfection et le Défaut des Anciennes et des Modernes Poésies ("The Poetic Art of Vauquelin de la Fresnaye: where one can observe the Perfection and Failure of Ancient and Modern Poems") written beginning in 1574 at the request of Henry III of France
      Henry III of France
      Henry III was King of France from 1574 to 1589. As Henry of Valois, he was the first elected monarch of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth with the dual titles of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1573 to 1575.-Childhood:Henry was born at the Royal Château de Fontainebleau,...

      , first published this year, criticism, France
      French poetry
      French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...


Births

  • June – Thomas Randolph
    Thomas Randolph (poet)
    Thomas Randolph was an English poet and dramatist. He was baptized on 18 June 1605 and was the uncle of American colonist William Randolph.-Education:...

     (died 1635
    1635 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet and dramatist
  • July 29 – Simon Dach
    Simon Dach
    Simon Dach was a Prussian German lyrical poet and writer of hymns, born in Memel in the Duchy of Prussia.-Early life:...

     (died 1659
    1659 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....

    ), Prussian German lyrical poet and hymn writer
  • November 4 – William Habington
    William Habington
    William Habington was an English poet.He was born at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire, and belonged to a well-known Catholic family...

     (died 1654
    1654 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Aylet, Divine, and Moral Speculations in Metrical Numbers, Upon Various Subjects, including previously published verses along with "The Song of Songs" and "The Brides Ornaments",...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet
  • Also:
    • Peter Hausted
      Peter Hausted
      Peter Hausted , Doctor of Divinity, was a "playwright, poet, preacher" in early 17th-century England. In his own time, he was notorious as a flamboyant preacher against Puritan and sectarian dissent in the Church of England, and was remembered for the riot that accompanied the 1632 debut of his...

       (died 1644
      1644 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published* Francis Quarles:...

      ), playwright, poet, preacher
    • Sor Marcela de San Felix
      Sor Marcela de San Felix
      Marcela de San Felix was a nun who worked as a prelate, a teacher to novices, and housekeeper among several other jobs. However, Sor Marcela was also a poet, an actress as well as a dramatist....

       (died 1687
      1687 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained-Great Britain:* John Cutts, , Poetical Exercises written on...

      ), daughter of Lope de Vega
      Lope de Vega
      Félix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature...

      , Spanish
      Spanish poetry
      Spanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....

    • William Mercer
      William Mercer (poet)
      William Mercer , was a Scottish poet and army officer.-Biography:At fifteen he ran away from school to become a soldier and fought in the 30 Years War. By the...

       (died 1675
      1675 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Charles Cotton:** Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously...

      ), Scottish poet and army officer
    • Nishiyama Sōin
      Nishiyama Soin
      was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin school of haikai poetry, which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more in touch with the common people, infusing a spirit of greater freedom into their...

       西山宗因, born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豊 (died 1682
      1682 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles concerning that nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matthew Coppinger, Poems, Songs and Lover-Verses, upon Several Subjects...

      ), Japanese
      Japanese poetry
      Japanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...

       early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga (comical renga) poet who founded the Danrin ("talkative forest") school of haikai poetry

Deaths

  • September 23 – Pontus de Tyard
    Pontus de Tyard
    Pontus de Tyard was a French poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade".He was born at Bissy-sur-Fley in Burgundy, of which he was seigneur, but the exact year of his birth is uncertain. He became a friend of Antoine Héroet and Maurice Scève...

     (born c. 1521
    1521 in poetry
    * Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog" * Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St...

    ), French
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

    , poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade
    La Pléiade
    The Pléiade is the name given to a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and...

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  • date not known – Diogo Bernardes died about this year (born c. 1530
    1530 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...

    ), brother of Frei Agostinho da Cruz, Portuguese
    Portuguese poetry
    -History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...

  • date not known – Thomas Hudson
    Thomas Hudson (poet)
    Thomas Hudson, was a musician and poet from the north of England present at the Scottish court of King James VI at the end of the 16th century...

     (born unknown), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    musician and poet
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