1622 in poetry

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Works published[]

Great Britain[]

• Robert Aylet:
  • Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations^[1]
  • Thrifts Equipage: Five divine and morall meditations^[1]
• Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1619)^[1]
• Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song (see Poly-Olbion, Part 1, 1612)^[1]
• John Hagthorpe, Divine Meditations, and Elegies^[1]
• Patrick Hannay, The Nightingale, Sheretine and Mariana. A Happy Husband. Eligies on the Death of Queene Anne. Songs and Sonnets. (A Happy Husband first published separately in 1619 with Richard Brathwait's Description of a Good Wife; Elegies on Queene Anne also published separately in 1619)^[1]

Title page of Ivan Gundulić's Tears of the Prodigal Son

• Abraham Holland, Naumachia; or, Holland's sea-fight
• Samuel Rowlands, Good News and Bad Newes^[1]
• John Taylor, A Memorial of all the English Monarchs^[1]
• George Wither:
  • Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'arete^[1]
  • Juvenilia^[1]

Other[]

• Ivan Gundulić, Tears of the Prodigal Son Croatian work published in Venice, Italy
• Theophile de Viau, Le Parnasse satyrique, a collection of licentious poems, published under his name, although many of the pieces were written by others; the publication led to de Viau's denunciation by the Jesuits in 1623 and a death sentence, later amended to exile within France; France
• John of the Cross (died 1591), Spiritual Canticle, Spanish mystical poem, largely written in 1577, first published, in French translation in Paris
• Alessandro Tassoni, La secchia rapita ("The Rape of the Bucket"), a mock-heroic epic poem; Italy

Births[]

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• January 15 – Molière (died 1673), French playwright, poet and actor
• March 28 – Ermes di Colorêt (died 1692), Friulian courtier and poet
• Francesc Fontanella (died 1685), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
• Luo Mu (died 1706), Chinese painter, poet and prose writer

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• June 4 – Péter Révay (born 1568), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
• August 21 – Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (born 1582), Spanish
• November 4 – Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (born 1580), Portuguese poet and bucolic writer, drowned
• December 13 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (born 1572), Czech poet and playwright
• John Owen (born 1560), Welsh poet and epigrammatist writing in Latin
• Mathew Roydon (born 1580), English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers

See also[]

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature

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