1601 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton

Works

Great Britain

• Nicholas Breton, A Divine Poeme^[1]
• Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
• Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune^[1]
• Robert Jones:
  • The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts^[1]
  • The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres^[1]
• Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus^[1]
• Thomas Morley:
  • First Booke of Ayres^[1]
  • The Triumphes of Oriana^[1]
• William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr
• John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham^[1]

Other

• Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques ("Collection of Poetic Works"), France^[2]

Births

• August 22 – Georges de Scudéry (died 1667), French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry
• Also:
  • John Earle born about this year (died 1665), English bishop, writer and poet^[1]
  • Antonio Enríquez Gómez (died 1661), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
  • Saib Tabrizi (died 1677), Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel

Deaths

• April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd (born 1562), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
• By May – Geoffrey Whitney (born 1548), English poet
• August 4 – Edward Grant (born 1548), English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School
• About this year – Thomas Nashe (born 1567), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist

See also

• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• English Madrigal School
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature
• University Wits

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. "Jean de Caen Bertaut" online article, Encyclopaedia Britannica, retrieved June 25, 2009