1634 in poetry

Events

• The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published (see also Anniversaries [...] Continued 1635)
• Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, anonymously published
• William Habington, Castara, anonymously published
• Alexander Ross, Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados, cento
• Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse, in prose and verse

Other

• Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Les Avis et presents, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse (revised from the original version, Ombre 1626; again revised 1641), France
• Lope de Vega, Spain, La Gatomaquia ("The Catfight"), a mock epic, and Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos
• Johannes Narssius, Gustavidos liber quartus

Births

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

• January 16 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter (died 1716), Norwegian poet
• December 15 - Thomas Kingo (died 1703), Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer

Deaths

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

• May 12 - George Chapman (born 1559), English dramatist, translator and poet
• June 25 - John Marston (born 1576), English dramatist, poet and satirist
• August 23 (bur.) - Tomos Prys (born c. 1564), Welsh-language poet
• Adriano Banchieri (born 1568), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet

Notes

References

1. [http://www.franciscodequevedo.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1170:q112 Fundacion Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish).]
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. Trager, James. (1979). "The People's Chronology". Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
4. Warner, J. Christopher. (2005). "The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch To Milton". University of Michigan Press.
5. (1993). "The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French". Oxford University Press.