1601 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton
Works
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Nicholas Breton, A Divine Poeme
- Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
- Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune
- Robert Jones:
- * The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts
- * The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres
- Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus
- Thomas Morley:
- * First Booke of Ayres
- * The Triumphes of Oriana
- William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr
- John Weever, ''The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham''
Other
- Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques, France
Births
- August 22 - Georges de Scudéry, French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry
- Also:
- * John Earle born about this year, English bishop, writer and poet
- * Antonio Enríquez Gómez, Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
- * Saib Tabrizi, Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel
Deaths
- April 10 - Mark Alexander Boyd, Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
- By May - Geoffrey Whitney, English poet
- August 4 - Edward Grant, English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School
- Late - Daniel Hermann Polish–Lithuanian diplomat and Neo-Latin poet
- About this year - Thomas Nashe, English pamphleteer, poet and satirist