1631 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works
France">French poetry">France
- Georges de Scudéry Œuvres poétiques,
- Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac:
- * Aristippe ou De la cour
- * Le Prince, eulogy on King Louis XIII
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Charles Aleyn, The Battailes of Crescey, and Poctiers
- Richard Braithwait:
- * The English Gentleman
- * The English Gentlewoman
- William L'Isle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica)
- David Lloyd, The Legend of Captain Jones, Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn
Other
- Francisco de Quevedo, La aguja de navegar cultos con la receta para hacer Soledades en un día, satire attacking poets who use gongorino or culterano language, Spain, criticism
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 1 - Katharine Philips, Welsh
- August 19 - John Dryden influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
- October 18 - Michael Wigglesworth, English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
- date not known - John Phillips, poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 4 - Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet, writer and chronicler; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
- February 7 - Gabriel Harvey, English poet and author
- March 31 - John Donne, English poet, preacher
- December 23 - Michael Drayton, English