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Works published

Great Britain

• George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days
• Sir John Harington, The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harrington (see also Epigrams Both Pleasant and Serious 1615)
• John Taylor, The Pennylesse Pilgrimage

Other

• Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
• Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento
• Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Rimas, lyrics, including translations of Horace, Martial and Ausonius, with a controversial preface which attracts much attention because of its strong opposition to the culteranismo of Luis de Góngora, Spain

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• Late – Abraham Cowley (died 1667), English
• Wu Jiaji (died 1684), Chinese

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 19 – Thomas Bastard (born 1566), English poet and clergyman
• July – John Davies of Hereford (born 1565), Anglo-Welsh poet
• August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (born 1585), Dutch poet and playwright
• September 28 – Josuah Sylvester (born 1563), English poet
• October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh (born c. 1554), English adventurer and author, executed
• December 6 – Jacques Davy Duperron (born 1556), French cardinal, politician and poet
• Also:
  • Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Stanyhurst" (born 1547), Irish translator, poet, historian and alchemist
  • Probable year – Bento Teixeira (born c. 1561), Portuguese poet

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. von Wilpert, Gero (1959). Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. A. Kröner. p. 81.

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