1613 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[edit]
- English poet Francis Quarles attends on the newly-married Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.
Works published[edit]
Great Britain[edit]
- Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne[1]
- William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
- Henry Parrot, Laquei Ridiculosi; or, Springes for Woodcocks[1]
- George Wither:
- Richard Zouch, The Dove; or, Passages of Cosmography[1]
On the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1612[edit]
See also 1612 in poetry
The November 6, 1612 death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, at age 18, occasions these poems:
- Thomas Campion, Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, verse and music; music by Giovanni Coperario (or "Copario"), said to have been John Cooper, an Englishman[1]
- George Chapman, An Epicede or Funerall Song, the work states "1612" but was published this year[1]
- John Davies, The Muses-Teares for the Losse of their Hope[1]
- William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades[1]
- Joshua Sylvester, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, originally published in 1612,[1] the book went into its third edition this year, with Elegy upon [...] Prince Henry by John Donne added to this edition;[2] (also includes poems in English, French, Latin and Italian by Walter Quin)[1]
Spain[edit]
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 20 – Lucy Hastings (died 1679), Irish-born English poet and Countess of Huntingdon
- April 21 (bapt.) – Franciscus Plante (died 1690), Dutch poet and chaplain
- June 16 – John Cleveland (died 1658), English
- November 5 – Isaac de Benserade (died 1691), French
- Also:
- Richard Crashaw, born about this year (died 1649), English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
- Shah Inayatullah (died 1701), poet from Sindh, Pakistan
- Khushal Khattak (died 1689), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
- Ye Xiaowan born about this year, Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaoluan[3]
Deaths[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 2 – Salima Sultan Begum (Makhfi) (born 1539), Mughal empress consort and Urdu poet
- March – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, (born 1559), Spanish playwright and poet
- April 6–9 – Natshinnaung (born (1578), Toungoo prince, poet and musician (executed)
- August 22 – Dominicus Baudius (born 1561), Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
- September 15 – Sir Thomas Overbury (born 1581), English poet and essayist (probably poisoned by Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset)
- October 9 – Henry Constable (born 1562), English Catholic polemicist and poet
- October 22 – Mathurin Régnier (born 1573), French satirical poet; nephew of Philippe Desportes
- November 16 – Trajano Boccalini (born 1556), Italian satirical poet
- Also:
- Govindadasa (born 1535), Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna
- Phùng Khắc Khoan (born 1528), Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet
- Dinko Zlatarić (born 1558), Croatian poet and translator
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Donne, John, The Complete English Poems, Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", p 20, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
- ^ Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 69, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009