- Source: 1628 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
=John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law
Phineas Fletcher, Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger
Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge
Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished
Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht
George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past (see also Haleluiah 1641)
= Other
=Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 30 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (died 1687), English statesman and poet
Bahinabai (died 1700), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
François Colletet (died 1680), French
Zbigniew Morsztyn (died 1689), Polish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
February 3 – Simon Goulart (born 1543) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet
February 5 (bur.) – Christopher Middleton, (born c. 1560), English poet and translator
August 1 – Juraj Baraković (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
October 16 – François de Malherbe (born 1555), French
See also
Poetry
16th century in poetry
16th century in literature