1619 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).

Events

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.

Richard Braithwaite, writing under the pen name "Musophilus", A New Spring Shadowed in Sundry Pithie Poems

Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1622)

Henry Hutton, Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in 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

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in 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, Portuguese

Ginés Pérez de Hita probable death in 1619 (born 1544), Spanish novelist and poet

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