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1606 in poetry

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

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English

  • Samuel Daniel, The Queenes Arcadia: A pastoral tragecomedie
  • John Davies, Bien Venu: Greate Britaines welcome to hir greate friendes, and deere breathren, the Danes
  • Thomas Dekker, The Double PP: a Papist in Armes, published anonymously
  • Michael Drayton's Poems Lyrick and Pastorall, including "The Ballad of Agincourt"
  • John Ford, Fames Memoriall; or, The Earle of Devonshire Deceased, on the death of Charles Blount
  • John Hind, Eliosto Libidinoso, contains some verse
  • Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, A Foure-Fould Meditation, of the Foure Last Things, also has been ascribed to Robert Southwell ("RS"), but The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature states Howard wrote it
  • King James Version of the Bible
  • Samuel Rowlands, A Terrible Battell Betweene the Two Consumers of the Whole World: Time and Death
  • William Warner, A Continuance of Albions England, sixth edition, containing books xiv-xvi

    • Other languages

  • Jean Passerat, Recueil des oeuvres poétiques de Ian Passerat augmenté de plus de la moitié, outre les précédentes impressions, edited by Jean de Rougevalet, Paris: Morel, published posthumously, France

    • Births

  • c. February 28 - Sir William Davenant (died 1668), English poet and playwright
  • March 3 - Edmund Waller (died 1687), English poet and politician
  • May 3 - Lorenzo Lippi (died 1664), Italian painter and poet
  • Also:
  • Karacaoğlan (died 1680), Turkish folk poet and ashik
  • Johannes Khuen (died 1675), Bavarian priest, poet and composer
  • Junije Palmotić (died 1657), Ragusan dramatist and poet
  • Samarth Ramdas (died 1682), Indian Marathi saint and religious poet
  • Thomas Washbourne (died 1687), English clergyman and poet

    • Deaths

  • March 2 - Martin Moller (born 1547), German poet and mystic
  • May 13 (bur.) - Arthur Golding (born 1535), English translator of prose and poetry
  • May 22 - José de Sigüenza (born 1544), Spanish historian, poet and theologian
  • September 2 - Karel van Mander (born 1548), Flemish-born Dutch painter and poet
  • October 5 - Philippe Desportes (born 1546), French
  • November 20 (bur.) - John Lyly (born 1553), English writer, dramatist and poet
  • Also:
  • Baltasar del Alcázar (born 1530), Spanish
  • Simwnt Fychan (born 1535), Welsh language poet and genealogist

    • References

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