1634 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published
- Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, anonymously published
- William Habington, Castara, anonymously published
- Alexander Ross, Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados, cento
- Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse, in prose and verse
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, France
- Lope de Vega, Spain, La Gatomaquia, a mock epic, and Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos
- Johannes Narssius, ''Gustavidos liber quartus''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 16 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet
- December 15 - Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- May 12 - George Chapman, English dramatist, translator and poet
- June 25 - John Marston, English dramatist, poet and satirist
- August 23 - Tomos Prys, Welsh-language poet
- Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet