1606 in poetry
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Works
- Samuel Daniel, The Queenes Arcadia: A pastoral tragecomedie[1]
- John Davies, Bien Venu: Greate Britaines welcome to hir greate friendes, and deere breathren, the Danes[1]
- Thomas Dekker, The Double PP: a Papist in Armes, published anonymously[1]
- Michael Drayton's Poems Lyrick and Pastorall, including "The Ballad of Agincourt"
- John Ford, Fames Memoriall; or, The Earle of Devonshire Deceased, on the death of Charles Blount[1]
- John Hind, Eliosto Libidinoso, contains some verse[1]
- Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, A Foure-Fould Meditation, of the Foure Last Things, also has been ascribed to Robert Southwell ("RS"), but The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature states Howard wrote it[1]
- King James Version of the Bible
- Samuel Rowlands, A Terrible Battell Betweene the Two Consumers of the Whole World: Time and Death[1]
- William Warner, A Continuance of Albions England, sixth edition, containing books xiv-xvi[1]
Other languages
- Jean Passerat, Recueil des oeuvres poétiques de Ian Passerat augmenté de plus de la moitié, outre les précédentes impressions, edited by Jean de Rougevalet, Paris: Morel, published posthumously, France
Births
- February 28 – Sir William Davenant (died 1668), English poet and playwright
- March 3 – Edmund Waller (died 1687), English poet and politician
- Also:
Deaths
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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