1628 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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English poet Michael Drayton this year

Events

Works published

Great Britain

• John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law[1]
• Phineas Fletcher, 'Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger[1]
• Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge[1]
• Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
• Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished[1]
• Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht[1]
• George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past (see also Haleluiah 1641)[1]

Other

• Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares[2]

Births

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

• January 30 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (died 1687), English statesman and poet
• Bahinabai (died 1700), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
• François Colletet (died 1680), French
• Zbigniew Morsztyn (died 1689), Polish poet

Deaths

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

• February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
• February 3 – Simon Goulart (born 1543) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet[3]
• February 5 (bur.) – Christopher Middleton, (born c. 1560), English poet and translator
• August 1 – Juraj Baraković (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
• September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
• October 16 – François de Malherbe (born 1555), French[4]

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Chaffee-Sorace, Diane, Góngora's poetic textual tradition: An analysis of selected variants, versions and imitations of his shorter poems, p 3, London: Tamesis Books Limited, 1988, retrieved via Google Books on July 18, 2009
3. "Switzerland" article, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, Volume XXVI, p 265, retrieved via Google Books May 11, 2009. Archived 2009-05-13.
4. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications