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

Events

Works published

Great Britain

• John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law^[1]
• Phineas Fletcher, 'Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger^[1]
• Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge^[1]
• Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
• Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished^[1]
• Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht^[1]
• George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past (see also Haleluiah 1641)^[1]

Other

• Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares^[2]

Births

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

• January 30 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (died 1687), English statesman and poet
• Bahinabai (died 1700), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
• François Colletet (died 1680), French
• Zbigniew Morsztyn (died 1689), Polish poet

Deaths

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

• February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
• February 3 – Simon Goulart (born 1543) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet^[3]
• February 5 (bur.) – Christopher Middleton, (born c. 1560), English poet and translator
• August 1 – Juraj Baraković (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
• September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
• October 16 – François de Malherbe (born 1555), French^[4]