1597 in poetry

Works published

• Nicholas Breton:
  • The Arbor of Amorous Devises, anthology partly by Breton, probably compiled by the printer, Richard Jones; reprints 10 poems from Brittons Bowre of Delights 1591
  • Auspicante Jehova
• John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes verse and music (see also Second Booke 1600, Third and Last Booke 1603)
• Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles (expanded in 1598; reprinted in The Barrons Wars 1603)
• Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes
• Henry Lok, Ecclesiastes, Otherwise Called the Preacher
• Gervase Markham, translated from a lost original work by Genevieve Petau de Maulette, Devoreux
• Thomas Middleton, The Wisodome of Solomon Paraphrased
• Thomas Morley, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Foure Voyces, verse and music (see also Canzonets 1593)
• Robert Parry, Sinetes Passion Uppon his Fortunes
• Robert Tofte, Laura: The Toyes of a Traveller; or, The Feast of Fancie, contains a statement, likely untrue, that more than 30 of the poems in the book are not by Tofte
• Nicholas Yonge, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music (see also Musica Transalpina 1588

Births

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

• February 24 – Vincent Voiture (died 1648), French poet and writer
• May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (died 1654), French writer and poet writing verses in both French and Latin
• December 23 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (died 1639), German
• Also:
  • Johan van Heemskerk (died 1656), Dutch poet
  • Christopher Harvey (died 1662), English
  • Claude de Malleville (died 1634), French
  • Rachel Speght (death year not known), English polemicist and poet
  • Wang Wei (died 1647), Chinese prostitute and poet

Deaths

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

• June 6 – William Hunnis (birth year not known), English
• June 9 – Joseph of Anchieta (born 1534), Spanish Jesuit missionary, poet and playwright
• Also:
  • Fernando de Herrera (born c. 1534), Spanish
  • George Turberville, also spelled "Turbervile", death year uncertain (born c. 1544), English poet and translator

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0