Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton
Nicholas Breton, A Divine Poeme
Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune
Robert Jones:
The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts
The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres
Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus
Thomas Morley:
First Booke of Ayres
The Triumphes of Oriana
William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr
John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham
Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques ("Collection of Poetic Works"), France
August 22 – Georges de Scudéry (died 1667), French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry
Also:
John Earle born about this year (died 1665), English bishop, writer and poet
Antonio Enríquez Gómez (died 1661), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
Saib Tabrizi (died 1677), Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel
April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd (born 1562), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
By May – Geoffrey Whitney (born 1548), English poet
August 4 – Edward Grant (born 1548), English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School
About this year – Thomas Nashe (born 1567), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
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