1622 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Robert Aylet:
  • Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations
  • Thrifts Equipage: Five divine and morall meditations
• Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1619)
• Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song (see Poly-Olbion, Part 1, 1612)
• John Hagthorpe, Divine Meditations, and Elegies
• Patrick Hannay, The Nightingale, Sheretine and Mariana. A Happy Husband. Eligies on the Death of Queene Anne. Songs and Sonnets. (A Happy Husband first published separately in 1619 with Richard Brathwait's Description of a Good Wife; Elegies on Queene Anne also published separately in 1619)

• Abraham Holland, Naumachia; or, Holland's sea-fight
• Samuel Rowlands, Good News and Bad Newes
• John Taylor, A Memorial of all the English Monarchs
• George Wither:
  • Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'arete
  • Juvenilia

Other

• Ivan Gundulić, Tears of the Prodigal Son (Suze sina razmetnoga), Croatian work published in Venice, Italy
• Theophile de Viau, Le Parnasse satyrique, a collection of licentious poems, published under his name, although many of the pieces were written by others; the publication led to de Viau's denunciation by the Jesuits in 1623 and a death sentence, later amended to exile within France; France
• John of the Cross (died 1591), Spiritual Canticle, Spanish mystical poem, largely written in 1577, first published, in French translation in Paris
• Pang Tat, called Neak Pang, The Poem of Angkor Wat (ល្បើកអង្គរវត្), Khmer epic inscribed in Cambodia
• Alessandro Tassoni, La secchia rapita ("The Rape of the Bucket"), a mock-heroic epic poem; Italy

Births

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• January 15 – Molière (died 1673), French playwright, poet and actor
• March 28 – Ermes di Colorêt (died 1692), Friulian courtier and poet
• Francesc Fontanella (died 1685), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
• Luo Mu (died 1706), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer

Deaths

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

• June 4 – Péter Révay (born 1568), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
• August 21 – Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (born 1582), Spanish
• November 4 – Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (born 1580), Portuguese poet and bucolic writer, drowned
• December 13 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (born 1572), Czech poet and playwright
• John Owen (born 1560), Welsh poet and epigrammatist writing in Latin
• Mathew Roydon (born 1580), English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6