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

Contents

• Events
• Works published
• Great Britain
• Other
• Births
• Deaths
• See also
• Notes

Events

• Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie , a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year (although the manuscript was not published in full until 1729 in poetry); five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other authors were Georges de Scudéry, Germain Habert, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Valentin Conrart, Chapelain, Racan, Tallemant des Réaux, Antoine Godeau, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Simon Arnauld de Pomponne; France

Works published

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 4 – Jerolim Kavanjin (died 1714), Croatian poet
• April 8 (bapt.)– William Wycherley (died 1716), English playwright and poet
• June 15 – Bernard de la Monnoye (died 1728), French lawyer, poet, philologue and critic

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 11 – Juan de Jáuregui (born 1583), Spanish poet, scholar and painter
• August 16 – Thomas Heywood (born sometime early 1570s), English playwright, actor, poet and author
• August – Sir William Vaughan (born 1575), Welsh writer, poet and colonial investor
• Francesca Caccini (born 1587), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
• Arthur Johnston (born c. 1579), Scottish poet and physician

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War

Notes