1639 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- Robert Davenport, A Crowne for a Conquerour; and Too Late to Call Backe Yesterday[1]
- Henry Glapthorne, Poems[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 5 (bapt.) – Charles Sedley (died 1701), English wit, dramatist, poet and statesman[1]
- Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (died 1720), French poet and wit
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 21 – Tommaso Campanella (born 1568), Italian philosopher and poet
- August 20 – Martin Opitz (born 1597), German
- October – Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (born 1585), English poet, translator and dramatist
- December – Sir Henry Wotton (born 1568), English diplomat, author and poet
- Possible date – John Ford (born 1586), English playwright and poet
Notes
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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