1639 in poetry

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Events[]

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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

See also[]

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

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