1632 in poetry

Works published

• Arthur Johnston, Epigrammata, Scottish poet writing in Latin
• John Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe
• John Milton, "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare", printed anonymously in the Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays
• Johannes Narssius, Gustavidos sive de bello Sueco-austriaco libri tres
• Francis Quarles, Divine Fancies: Digested into epigrammes, meditations and observations

Births

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

• January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler (died 1664), London-born Anglo-Welsh poet
• August 13 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (died 1713), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin
• Étienne Pavillon (died 1705), French lawyer and poet
• Rahman Baba (died 1706), Indian Pashto poet
• Wang Wu (died 1690), Chinese painter and poet
• Wu Li (died 1718), Chinese landscape painter and poet

Deaths

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

• February 23 – Giambattista Basile (born c. 1570), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
• February/March – John Weever (born 1576), English poet and antiquary
• July 29 – Samuel Ampzing (born 1590), Dutch clergyman and poet
• August 25 – Thomas Dekker (born 1572), English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
• Ye Wanwan, died this year, according to one source, or in 1633, according to another (born 1610), Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan
• Last known reference – Henry Reynolds (born 1564), English poet, schoolmaster and literary critic
• Possible date – John Webster (born c. 1580), English Jacobean dramatist and poet

Notes

References

1. (1965). "Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse". Penguin.
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. 0-8047-3231-0, {{ISBN. 978-0-8047-3231-4
4. Olsen, Kirsten, [https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780313288036 ''Chronology of Women's History''], p 69, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, {{ISBN. 0-313-28803-8, {{ISBN. 978-0-313-28803-6