1622 in poetry
This article covers 1622 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Robert Aylet:
- * Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations
- * Thrifts Equipage: Five divine and morall meditations
- Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum
- Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song
- John Hagthorpe, Divine Meditations, and Elegies
- Patrick Hannay, The Nightingale, Sheretine and Mariana. A Happy Husband. Eligies on the Death of Queene Anne. Songs and Sonnets.
- Abraham Holland, Naumachia; or, Holland's sea-fight
- Samuel Rowlands, Good News and Bad Newes
- John Taylor, A Memorial of all the English Monarchs
- George Wither:
- * Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'arete
- * ''Juvenilia''
Other
- Ivan Gundulić, Tears of the Prodigal Son , Croatian work published in Venice, Italy
- Theophile de Viau, Le Parnasse satyrique, a collection of licentious poems, published under his name, although many of the pieces were written by others; the publication led to de Viau's denunciation by the Jesuits in 1623 and a death sentence, later amended to exile within France; France
- John of the Cross, Spiritual Canticle, Spanish mystical poem, largely written in 1577, first published, in French translation in Paris
- Pang Tat, called Neak Pang, The Poem of Angkor Wat, Khmer epic inscribed in Cambodia
- Alessandro Tassoni, La secchia rapita, a mock-heroic epic poem; Italy
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 15 - Molière, French playwright, poet and actor
- March 28 - Ermes di Colorêt, Friulian courtier and poet
- Francesc Fontanella, Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
- Luo Mu, Chinese painter, poet and prose writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 4 - Péter Révay, Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
- August 21 - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana, Spanish
- November 4 - Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet and bucolic writer, drowned
- December 13 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech poet and playwright
- John Owen, Welsh poet and epigrammatist writing in Latin
- Mathew Roydon, English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers