1606 in poetry

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Events

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Works

English

• Samuel Daniel, The Queenes Arcadia: A pastoral tragecomedie^[1]
• John Davies, Bien Venu: Greate Britaines welcome to hir greate friendes, and deere breathren, the Danes^[1]
• Thomas Dekker, The Double PP: a Papist in Armes, published anonymously^[1]
• Michael Drayton's Poems Lyrick and Pastorall, including "The Ballad of Agincourt"
• John Ford, Fames Memoriall; or, The Earle of Devonshire Deceased, on the death of Charles Blount^[1]
• John Hind, Eliosto Libidinoso, contains some verse^[1]
• Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, A Foure-Fould Meditation, of the Foure Last Things, also has been ascribed to Robert Southwell ("RS"), but The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature states Howard wrote it^[1]
• King James Version of the Bible
• Samuel Rowlands, A Terrible Battell Betweene the Two Consumers of the Whole World: Time and Death^[1]
• William Warner, A Continuance of Albions England, sixth edition, containing books xiv-xvi^[1]

Other languages

• Jean Passerat, Recueil des oeuvres poétiques de Ian Passerat augmenté de plus de la moitié, outre les précédentes impressions, edited by Jean de Rougevalet, Paris: Morel, published posthumously, France

Births

• c. February 28 - Sir William Davenant (died 1668), English poet and playwright
• March 3 - Edmund Waller (died 1687), English poet and politician
• May 3 - Lorenzo Lippi (died 1664), Italian painter and poet
• Also:
  • Karacaoğlan (died 1680), Turkish folk poet and ashik
  • Johannes Khuen (died 1675), Bavarian priest, poet and composer
  • Junije Palmotić (died 1657), Ragusan dramatist and poet
  • Samarth Ramdas (died 1682), Indian Marathi saint and religious poet
  • Thomas Washbourne (died 1687), English clergyman and poet

Deaths

• March 2 - Martin Moller (born 1547), German poet and mystic
• May 13 (bur.) - Arthur Golding (born 1535), English translator of prose and poetry
• May 22 - José de Sigüenza (born 1544), Spanish historian, poet and theologian
• September 2 - Karel van Mander (born 1548), Flemish-born Dutch painter and poet
• October 5 - Philippe Desportes (born 1546), French
• November 20 (bur.) - John Lyly (born 1553), English writer, dramatist and poet
• Also:
  • Baltasar del Alcázar (born 1530), Spanish
  • Simwnt Fychan (born 1535), Welsh language poet and genealogist

Notes