1617 in poetry

Events

• James I of England creates Poet Laureate position for Ben Jonson

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• John Davies, published anonymously, Wits Bedlam, epigrams
• Leonard Digges, The Rape of Proserpine, translated from the Latin of Claudius Claudianus' De raptu Proserpinae
• William Drummond, published anonymously, Forth Feasting, written on the occasion of James I's visit to Scotland

Other

• Martin Opitz Aristarchus, German poet and writer in Latin, in this book championing the purity of the German language
• Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, A la solitude, ("Solitude"), an ode (untranslated text in French) France

Births

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

• April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (died 1681), English Cavalier soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet
• September 25 (bapt.) – Henry Birkhead (died 1696), English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry
• December 9 – Richard Lovelace (died 1657), English Cavalier poet
• Peter Folger (died 1690), English-born poet, Nantucket settler, and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
• Pierre Petit (died 1687), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer

Deaths

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

• August 8 – Tarquinia Molza (born 1542), Italian singer and poet
• Giovanni Botero (born 1544), Italian political theorist, priest, poet, and diplomat
• Keshavdas (born 1555), Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet
• Riccardo Luisini (born 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (born 1567), Irish
• François du Souhait (born between 1570 and 1580), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature".
2. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, {{ISBN. 0-550-16040-X
3. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.