1629 in poetry explained

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Works published

• Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth-field: With a taste of the variety of other poems left by Sir John Beaumont, posthumously published by his son and namesake
• George Chapman, translator, A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero, Part 2 is a verse translation of Juvenal's Book 1, Satire 5^[1]
• Thomas Farnaby, editor, Latin: Florilegium Epigrammatum graecorum eorumque Latino versu a varus redditorum (later editions in 1650, 1671)
• Sir Francis Hubert, The Historie of Edward the Second Surnamed Carnarvan, the authorized edition; unauthorized edition published in 1628^[1]
• Thomas May, translation, Selected Epigrams of Martial^[1]
• Francis Quarles, Argalus and Parthenia^[1]

Births

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

• Katherine Austen (died 1683), English diarist and poet
• Laurens Bake (died 1702), Dutch poet
• Zhu Yizun (died 1709), Chinese poet
• 12 December  - Symeon of Polotsk (died 1680), Baroque Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener

Deaths

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

• 18 August  - Vendela Skytte (born 1608), Swedish noblewoman, salon hostess, writer and poet
• November  - Robert Hayman (born 1575), English poet and governor of Newfoundland
• 5 May  - Szymon Szymonowic (born 1558), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
• date not known  - Gerolamo Aleandro (born 1574), Italian, Latin-language poet^[2]

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved 14 May 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.