1644 in poetry
This article covers 1644 in poetry.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published
- Francis Quarles:
- * Barnabas and Boanerges: Or, wine and oyle for afflicted soules, Part 2 also published this year in an unauthorized edition as Barnabas and Boanerges; both parts published together under the title Judgement and Mercie for Afflicted Soules 1646
- * ''The Shepheards Oracle''
Other
- Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, ''Pegnesische Schäfergedicht''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Matsuo Bashō, famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, especially Haiku
- Isaac Chayyim Cantarini, Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
- Frances Norton, Lady Norton, English poetry religious poet and prose writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Nicholas Bourbon, French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
- Peter Hausted, playwright, poet, preacher
- Geoffrey Keating, Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
- Rhys Prichard, Welsh language poet and a vicar
- Francis Quarles, English
- George Sandys, English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Church of England Archbishop Edwin Sandys
- Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish dramatist, poet, and novelist