1626 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- February 18 - Poet Abraham Holland dies of the Great Plague of London having on the previous day handed over the manuscript of his poems later published as Hollandi Posthuma to his brother, the printer Henry Holland.
Works published
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- John Kennedy (poet), Calanthrop and Lucilla
- Thomas May, Pharsalia, Books 1-3
- George Sandys, translator, Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished, complete edition, translated from Ovid's Metamorphoses; see also The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis 1621; revised 1632 with allegorical commentary and a translation of the first book of the Aeneid of Virgil)
- Sir William Vaughan, The Golden Fleece transported from Cambriol Colchis, by Orpheus junior, long and fantastic prose allegory, demonstrating "the Errours of Religion, the Vices and Decayes of the Kingdome, and lastly the wayes to get wealth, and to restore Trading" through the colonization of Newfoundland
- John Wilson, ''A Song, or Story, for the Lasting Remembrance of Divers Famous Works''
Other
- Claude de L'Estoile, Recueil des plus beaux vers, France
- Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Ombre, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse, France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January - Sir Robert Howard, English playwright, poet and brother-in-law of John Dryden
- July 25 - Gerard Brandt, Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian
- Also:
- * Jacques Testu de Belval, born about this year, French ecclesiastic and poet
- * Gwilym Puw, Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 18 - Abraham Holland, English poet
- February 28 - Cyril Tourneur, English playwright and poet
- April 9 - Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and poet
- September 25 - Théophile de Viau, French poet and playwright
- October 19-26 - François Béroalde de Verville, novelist and poet
- December 8 - Sir John Davies, English poet and lawyer, attorney general in Ireland; not to be confused with his contemporary, John Davies of Hereford
- date not known - Nicholas Breton, English poet and novelist