1633 in poetry

Events

• February 27 - A few days before his death from consumption at his rectory in Bemerton, George Herbert calls for a lute so that he can sing religious songs. He has sent his poems, none of which have been published in his lifetime, to Nicholas Ferrar of the Little Gidding community and they are issued later in the year.

Works published

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• Abraham Cowley, Poetical Blossomes
• John Donne, Poems, by J.D.: With elegies on the authors death, the first collected edition of the author's works; including "The Canonization" and the Holy Sonnets
• Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island; or, The Isle of Man
• George Herbert, The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, a posthumous collection of all Herbert's poems, including "Easter Wings" ; edited by Nicholas Ferrar
• Thomas May, The Reigne of King Henry the Second
• Wye Saltonstall, translator, Tristia, from the original Latin of Ovid

Other

• Luis de Góngora y Argote, edited by Don Gonzalo de Hoces y Cordoba, Todas las obras de don Louis de Gongora en varios poemas, a posthumous edition of Gongora's works often used as a source for later publications in the following centuries; Spain
• François L'Hermite, who wrote under the pen name "Tristan L'Hermite", Les Plaintes d’Acanthe, France

Births

• Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, English poet
• George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, English statesman, writer, and politician

Deaths

• March 1 - George Herbert, Welsh-born poet, orator and priest
• August 10 - Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
• Edmund Bolton, English historian and poet
• Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish preacher and poet
• Ye Wanwan died this year, according to one source, or in 1632, according to another, Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Xiaowan and Ye Xiaoluan