1613 in poetry

Events

• English poet Francis Quarles attends on the newly-married Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.

  Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
• Henry Parrot, Laquei Ridiculosi; or, Springes for Woodcocks
• George Wither:
• * Abuses Stript, and Whipt; or, Satirical Essayes
• * Epithalamia; or, Nuptiall Poems, the work states "1612" but was published this year
• Richard Zouch, The Dove; or, Passages of Cosmography

  On the death of [Henry [Frederick, Prince of Wales]] in 1612

• Thomas Campion, Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, verse and music; music by Giovanni Coperario, said to have been John Cooper, an Englishman
• George Chapman, An Epicede or Funerall Song, the work states "1612" but was published this year
• John Davies, The Muses-Teares for the Losse of their Hope
• William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
• Joshua Sylvester, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, originally published in 1612, the book went into its third edition this year, with Elegy upon Prince Henry by John Donne added to this edition;

  Spain">Spanish poetry">Spain

• La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea by Luis de Góngora y Argote

  Births

• January 20 - Lucy Hastings, Irish-born English poet and Countess of Huntingdon
• April 21 - Franciscus Plante, Dutch poet and chaplain
• June 16 - John Cleveland, English
• November 5 - Isaac de Benserade, French
• Also:
• * Richard Crashaw, born about this year, English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
• * Shah Inayatullah, poet from Sindh, Pakistan
• * Khushal Khattak, Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
• * Ye Xiaowan born about this year, Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaoluan

  Deaths

• January 2 - Salima Sultan Begum , Mughal empress consort and Urdu poet
• March - Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola,, Spanish playwright and poet
• April 6-9 - Natshinnaung, Toungoo prince, poet and musician
• August 22 - Dominicus Baudius, Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
• September 15 - Sir Thomas Overbury, English poet and essayist
• October 9 - Henry Constable, English Catholic polemicist and poet
• October 22 - Mathurin Régnier, French satirical poet; nephew of Philippe Desportes
• November 16 - Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirical poet
• Also:
• * Govindadasa, Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna
• * Phùng Khắc Khoan, Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet
• * Dinko Zlatarić, Croatian poet and translator