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Works
Great Britain
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William Corkine's Second Booke of Ayres, published this year
- George Chapman, translator, Petrarchs Seven Penitentiall Psalms, Paraphrastically Translated[1]
- William Corkine, Second Booke of Ayres, some to sing and play to the Basse-Violl alone: others to be sung to the Lute and Bass Viollin, including "Break of Day" by John Donne[2]
- John Davies, The Muses Sacrifice[1]
- John Donne, The First Anniversarie, An Anatomie of the World [...] The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule, anonymously published together, although The Second Anniversarie has a separate, dated, title page (and was originally published as An Anatomy of the World 1611)[1]
- John Dowland, A Pilgrimes Solace, verse and music[1]
- Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, Part I, a topographical poem describing England and Wales;[1] with notes by John Selden (Part 2 published 1622[1])
- Orlando Gibbons, First Set of Madrigals and Mottets
- Richard Johnson, A Crowne-Garland of Goulden Roses, Gathered Out of Englands Royal Garden[1]
- The Passionate Pilgrim, expanded edition, anthology
- Henry Peacham, the younger, Minerva Britannia; or, A Garden of Heroical Devises[1]
- Samuel Rowlands:
- "W.S." (but probably by John Ford), A Funeral Elegy for Master William Peter
- John Taylor, The Sculler[1]
On the death of Prince Henry
See also 1613 in poetry
The November 6 death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, at age 18, occasioned these poems:
- Sir William Alexander, An Elegie on the Death of Prince Henrie, on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales [1]
- Joshua Sylvester, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, also includes poems in English, French, Latin and Italian by Walter Quin[1] (A third edition was published in 1613.[2])
- George Wither, Prince Henries Obsequies; or, Mournefull Elegies Upon his Death [1]
Other
- Luis de Góngora - Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea) Spain
- Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Les Œuvres ("Works"), published posthumously in Caen, France
Births
- February 8 – Samuel Butler (died 1680), English
- March – Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet (died 1643), Welsh politician and poet
- March 4 (bapt.) – Jan Vos (died 1667), Dutch playwright and poet
- March 20 – Anne Bradstreet, née Dudley (died 1672), "the chief poetess of Colonial America", English-born Puritan poet[3]
- October 15 – Isaac de Benserade (died 1691), French playwright and court poet, a member of the Académie française in 1674
- October 25 – James Graham (died 1650), 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose (Scottish) soldier and poet
- Also:
- Edward King (drowned 1637), Irish poet who wrote in Latin in England; a friend of John Milton
- Zhou Lianggong (died 1672), Chinese poet, essayist and art historian
- Łukasz Opaliński (died 1666), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
Deaths
- May 20 (bur.) – William Fowler (born c. 1560), Scottish-born poet, writer, courtier and translator
- July 24 – John Salusbury (born 1567), Welsh knight, politician and poet
- October – Juan de la Cueva (born 1543), Spanish dramatist and poet
- October 7 – Giovanni Battista Guarini (born 1538), Italian poet, dramatist and diplomat
- November 20 – Sir John Harington (born 1560), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
- Also – Ercole Bottrigari (born 1531), Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect and composer
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Trent, William P.; Wells, Benjamin W. (1903). Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Transplanting of Culture 1607-1650. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co. p. 271.