1630 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• William Davenant, Ieffereidos
• John Donne, A Help to Memory and Discourse, including The Broken Heart and part of "Song" ("Go and catch a falling star ...")
• Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium
• Thomas May, A Continuation of Lucan's Historicall Poem Till the Death of Julius Caesar (see also Lucan's Pharsalia 1626, 1627)
• Diana Primrose, **
• Francis Quarles, Divine Poems
• Thomas Randolph, Aristippus; or, The Joviall Philosopher, published anonymously
• Nathanael Richards, The Celestiall Publican
• Alexander Ross, Three Decads of Divine Meditations
• John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet

Other

• José Pellicer de Salas y Tovar, Complete Readings of the Works by Luis de Góngora y Argote, criticism; Spain

Births

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

• January 17 – Sultan Bahu (died 1691), Muslim Sufi saint and poet
• April 28 – Charles Cotton (died 1687), English poet and writer
• Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (died 1708), Puerto Rico's first native born poet

Deaths

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

• March – Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson" (born 1570), English-born writer of madrigals
• April 29 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (born 1552), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein died (born 1586), German
• Also:
  • Pedro Bucaneg (born 1592), blind Filipino poet, "Father of Ilokano literature"
  • Gian Domenico Cancianini (born 1547), Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Samuel Rowlands, died about this year (born c. 1570), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
  • Jacob Uziel (born unknown), Spanish physician and poet

Notes

References

1. Donne, John, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ObaxqTH2w2wC ''The Complete English Poems''], Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", p 24, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
3. link. (2024-05-24 at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009)