Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
February 27 – A few days before his death from consumption at his rectory in Bemerton (near Salisbury in England), George Herbert calls for a lute so that he can sing religious songs. He has sent his poems, none of which have been published in his lifetime, to Nicholas Ferrar of the religious community at Little Gidding and they are issued later in the year.
Abraham Cowley, Poetical Blossomes
John Donne, Poems, by J.D.: With elegies on the authors death, the first collected edition of the author's works; (seven editions by 1669) including "The Canonization" and the Holy Sonnets
Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island; or, The Isle of Man
George Herbert, The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, a posthumous collection of all Herbert's poems, including "Easter Wings" (shown at right); edited by Nicholas Ferrar
Thomas May, The Reigne of King Henry the Second
Wye Saltonstall, translator, Tristia, from the original Latin of Ovid
Luis de Góngora y Argote, edited by Don Gonzalo de Hoces y Cordoba, Todas las obras de don Louis de Gongora en varios poemas, a posthumous edition of Gongora's works often used as a source for later publications in the following centuries; Spain
François L'Hermite, who wrote under the pen name "Tristan L'Hermite", Les Plaintes d’Acanthe, France
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (died 1685), English poet
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (died 1695), English statesman, writer, and politician
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 1 – George Herbert (born 1593), Welsh-born poet, orator and priest
August 10 – Anthony Munday (born 1560), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
Edmund Bolton (born 1575), English historian and poet
Hortensio Félix Paravicino (born 1580), Spanish preacher and poet
Ye Wanwan died this year, according to one source, or in 1632, according to another (born 1610), Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan
