1621 in poetry

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

Events

• November 22 – English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Works published

Great Britain

• John Ashmore, translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments Annexed
• Richard Brathwaite:
  • Natures Embassie; or, The Wilde-Mans Measures
  • Times Curtaine Drawne; or, The Anatomie of Vanitie
• Ralph Crane, The Workes of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual
• Francis Quarles, Hadassa; or, The History of Queene Ester
• George Sandys, The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, published anonymously (see also Ovid's Metamorphosis 1626)
• Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum: With a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner, reall in matter
• John Taylor:
  • The Praise, Antiquity, and Commodity, of Beggery, Beggers and Begging
  • Superbiae Flagellum; or, The Whip of Pride
• George Wither, The Songs of the Old Testament, verses and music
• Lady Mary Wroth, The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania, partly in verse, written by Sir Philip Sidney's niece

Other

• Théophile de Viau, Œuvres poétiques, France

Births

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

• March 31 – Andrew Marvell (died 1678), English metaphysical poet and parliamentarian
• April 17 – Henry Vaughan (died 1695), Welsh poet
• July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine (died 1695), French poet and fable writer
• July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (died 1693), Polish poet and member of the noble class Szlachta
• Rupa Bhavani (died 1721), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
• Jane Cavendish (died 1669), English poet and playwright
• Wacław Potocki (died 1696), Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, poet and writer

Deaths

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

• March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini (born 1562), Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist
• August 3 – Guillaume du Vair (born 1556), French writer and poet
• August 15 – John Barclay (born 1582), Scottish satirist and poet
• September 25 – Mary Herbert (born 1561), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
• October 12 – Pierre Matthieu (born 1563), French playwright, poet and historian

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature