1622 In Poetry

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

Events

Works published

Great Britain

* Robert Aylet:
** ''Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
** ''Thrifts Equipage: Five divine and morall meditations''
* Sir John Davies, ''Nosce Teipsum'' (see also ''Nosce Teipsum'' 1599, 1619)
* Michael Drayton, ''The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song'' (see ''Poly-Olbion'', Part 1, 1612)
* John Hagthorpe, ''Divine Meditations, and Elegies''
* Patrick Hannay, ''The Nightingale, Sheretine and Mariana. A Happy Husband. Eligies on the Death of Queene Anne. Songs and Sonnets.'' (''A Happy Husband'' first published separately in 1619 with Richard Brathwait's ''Description of a Good Wife''; ''Elegies on Queene Anne'' also published separately in 1619)

* Abraham Holland, ''Naumachia; or, Holland's sea-fight''
* Samuel Rowlands, ''Good News and Bad Newes''
* John Taylor, ''A Memorial of all the English Monarchs''
* George Wither:
** ''Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'arete''
** ''Juvenilia''

Other

* Ivan Gundulić, '' Tears of the Prodigal Son'', Croatian work published in Venice, Italy
* Theophile de Viau, ''Le Parnasse satyrique'', a collection of licentious poems, published under his name, although many of the pieces were written by others; the publication led to de Viau's denunciation by the Jesuits in 1623 and a death sentence, later amended to exile within France; France
* John of the Cross (died 1591), Spiritual Canticle, Spanish mystical poem, largely written in 1577, first published, in French translation in Paris
* Pang Tat, called Neak Pang, ''The Poem of Angkor Wat'', Khmer epic inscribed in Cambodia
* Alessandro Tassoni, ''La secchia rapita'' ("The Rape of the Bucket"), a mock-heroic epic poem; Italy

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article:
* January 15 – Molière (died 1673), French playwright, poet and actor
* March 28 – Ermes di Colorêt (died 1692), Friulian courtier and poet
* Francesc Fontanella (died 1685), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
* Luo Mu (died 1706), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article:
* June 4 – Péter Révay (born 1568), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
* August 21 – Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (born 1582), Spanish
* November 4 – Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (born 1580), Portuguese poet and bucolic writer, drowned
* December 13 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (born 1572), Czech poet and playwright
* John Owen (born 1560), Welsh poet and epigrammatist writing in Latin
* Mathew Roydon (born 1580), English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers

See also

* Poetry
* 16th century in poetry
* 16th century in literature

Notes

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