1613 in poetry

Events

• English poet Francis Quarles attends on the newly-married Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
• Henry Parrot, Laquei Ridiculosi; or, Springes for Woodcocks
• George Wither:
  • Abuses Stript, and Whipt; or, Satirical Essayes
  • Epithalamia; or, Nuptiall Poems, the work states "1612" but was published this year
• Richard Zouch, The Dove; or, Passages of Cosmography

On the death of [[Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales]] in 1612

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
• George Chapman, An Epicede or Funerall Song, the work states "1612" but was published this year
• John Davies, The Muses-Teares for the Losse of their Hope
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
• Joshua Sylvester, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, originally published in 1612, (also includes poems in English, French, Latin and Italian by Walter Quin)

[[Spanish poetry|Spain]]

• La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea by Luis de Góngora y Argote

Births

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

Deaths

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

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. the book went into its third edition this year, with ''Elegy upon [...] Prince Henry'' by [[John Donne]] added to this edition;Donne, John, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ObaxqTH2w2wC ''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
3. 0-313-28803-8, {{ISBN. 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009