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

Events 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.According to Izaak Walton. He has sent his poems, none of which have been published in his lifetime, to Nicholas Ferrar of the Little Gidding community and they are issued later in the year.

Works published

Great Britain 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;Donne, John, The Complete English Poems, Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", p 24, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010 (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

Other 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; SpainChaffee-Sorace, Diane, Góngora's poetic textual tradition: An analysis of selected variants, versions and imitations of his shorter poems, p 3, London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1988, retrieved via Google Books on July 18, 2009 François L'Hermite, who wrote under the pen name "Tristan L'Hermite", Les Plaintes d’Acanthe, France

Births 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

Deaths 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,Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 69, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, , , retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009 or in 1632, according to anotherKang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism, p 267, Stanford University Press, 1999, , (born 1610), Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan

See also

17th century in literature 17th century in poetry Poetry

Notes