1634 in poetry

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

Grave of George Chapman in the Church of St. Giles, London. The tombstone was designed and paid for by Inigo Jones

Works published

Great Britain

• Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published (see also Anniversaries [...] Continued 1635)^[1]
• Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, published anonymously^[2]
• William Habington, Castara, anonymously published^[1]
• Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse, in prose and verse^[1]

Other

• Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Les Avis et presents, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse (revised from the original version, Ombre 1626; again revised 1641), France^[3]
• Lope de Vega, Spain, La Gatomaquia ("The Catfight"), a mock epic, and Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos

Births

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

• January 16 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (died 1716), Norwegian poet
• December 15 - Thomas Kingo (died 1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer

Deaths

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

• George Chapman (born 1559), English dramatist, translator, and poet
• Adriano Banchieri (born 1568), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet
• Claude Malleville (born 1597), French poet
• John Marston (born 1576), English poet, playwright and satirist
• John Webster (born 1580), English Jacobean dramatist and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes