1634 in poetry

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Grave of George Chapman in the Church of St. Giles, London. The tombstone was designed and paid for by Inigo Jones

List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.[1]

Works published

Great Britain

• Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published (see also Anniversaries [...] Continued 1635)[2]
• Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, anonymously published[3]
• William Habington, Castara, anonymously published[2]
• Alexander Ross, Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados, cento[4]
• Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse, in prose and verse[2]

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[5]
• Lope de Vega, Spain, La Gatomaquia ("The Catfight"), a mock epic, and Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos

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

See also

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

Notes

1. Fundacion Francisco de Quevedo (Spanish).
2. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Trager, James (1979). The People's Chronology. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
4. Warner, J. Christopher (2005). The Augustinian Epic, Petrarch To Milton. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. p. 136. ISBN 0-472-11518-9.
5. France, Peter, ed. (1993). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.