1619 In Poetry

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''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
* Sir John Davies, ''Nosce Teipsum'' (see also ''Nosce Teipsum'' 1599, 1622)
* Michael Drayton, ''Idea'' Lucie-Smith, Edward, ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
* Henry Hutton, ''Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams''
* George Wither, ''Fidelia''

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "earin 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 "earin 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, PortuguesePreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al. (1993). ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics''. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
* Probable year – Ginés Pérez de Hita (born 1544), Spanish novelist and poet

See also

* Poetry
* 17th century in poetry
* 17th century in literature

Notes

{{Lists of poets

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