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

Events

• April – English poet Ben Jonson visits Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
• c. October – Following the death of Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England (on Johnson's death in 1637 he is succeeded by William Davenant).
• Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg.

Works published

• Richard Braithwaite, writing under the pen name "Musophilus", A New Spring Shadowed in Sundry Pithie Poems^[1]
• Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1622)^[1]
• Michael Drayton, Idea^[2]
• Henry Hutton, Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams^[1]
• George Wither, Fidelia

Births

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

• January 21 – Anders Bording (died 1677), Danish poet and journalist
• March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac (died 1655), French soldier and poet
• Moses Belmonte (died 1647), Spanish polyglot poet and translator
• Bedřich Bridel (died 1680), Czech baroque writer, poet and missionary
• William Chamberlayne (died 1703), English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier
• Morgan Llwyd (died 1659), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer
• Shalom Shabazi (died 1720), Jewish poet of Yemen

Deaths

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

• April 21 – Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (born 1550), Polish rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
• October 14 – Samuel Daniel (born 1562), English Poet Laureate and historian
• Frei Agostinho da Cruz (born 1540), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese^[3]
• Probable year – Ginés Pérez de Hita (born 1544), Spanish novelist and poet