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

Events

• English poet Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet presented with the Beaumont Baronetcy, of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester

Works published

Great Britain

• 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

• Gabriel Boc ngel, Rimas ("Verses"), containing both ballads and sonnets; Spain^[2]

Bleiberg, Germ n, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 5, 2011

• Luis de G ngora y Argote, Works in verse by the Spanish Homer, collected by Juan L pez de Vicu a published posthumously; includes numerous sonnets, odes, ballads, songs for guitar, La F bula de Polifemo y Galatea, Las Soledades and other long poems; Spain
• Fran ois de Malherbe and others, Recueil des plus beaux vers des po tes de ce temps, with many poems by Malherbe and his acknowledged disciples; France^[3]

Births

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

• Nicol Minato (died 1698), Italian poet, librettist and impresario
• Walter Pope (died 1714), English astronomer and poet

Deaths

Luis de Gongora, painted by Diego Vel zquez in 1622, five years before the poet's death Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 19 – John Beaumont (born 1583), English
• May 24 – Luis de Gongora (born 1561), Spanish lyric poet

• Also:
  • Bernardo de Balbuena (born 1561), Latin American poet
  • Charles Best (born 1570), English who wrote A Sonnet of the Moon
  • Dirk Rafelsz Camphuysen (born 1586), Dutch painter, poet and theologian
  • Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (born 1556), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
  • Thomas Middleton (born 1580), English playwright and poet
  • Cormac Mac Con Midhe (born unknown), Irish poet
  • Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (born 1581), English countess, minor poet, and major patron of poets
  • Thomas Seget (born 1569), Scottish poet who wrote in Latin

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature

Notes