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

Events

Works published

• Richard Brathwaite, The Fatall Nuptiall; or, Mournefull Marriage, anonymously published^[1]
• John Saltmarsh, Poemata sacra
• Wye Saltonstall, Ovids Heroicall Epistles, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Epistolae heriodum^[1]
• Longinus, On the Sublime, an edition (not in English) by Gerard Langbaine at Oxford; a widely known edition; Ancient Greek criticism; twice reprinted before 1551 (see John Hall's translation, the first into English, 1652; and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's influential translation into French in 1674)^[2]

Births

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

• January 1 – Jacques Cassagne (died 1679), French clergyman, poet and moralist
• April 7 – Gregório de Matos, (died 1696), Brazilian Baroque poet
• November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (died 1711), French poet and critic
• Also:
  • Jean de Montigny (died 1671), French poet and philosopher
  • Thomas Traherne, born this year or in 1637 (died 1674), English poet and religious writer

Deaths

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

• January 19 – Daniel Schwenter (born 1585), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet and librarian
• August 25 – Bhai Gurdas (born 1551), Punjabi Sikh scholar, poet and scribe of the Adi Granth