1622 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Robert Aylet:
• * Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations
• * Thrifts Equipage: Five divine and morall meditations
• Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum
• Michael Drayton, The Second Part, or a Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song
• John Hagthorpe, Divine Meditations, and Elegies
• Patrick Hannay, The Nightingale, Sheretine and Mariana. A Happy Husband. Eligies on the Death of Queene Anne. Songs and Sonnets.

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

  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, Spiritual Canticle, Spanish mystical poem, largely written in 1577, first published, in French translation in Paris
• Alessandro Tassoni, La secchia rapita, a mock-heroic epic poem; Italy

  Births

• January 15 - Molière, French playwright, poet and actor
• March 28 - Ermes di Colorêt, Friulian courtier and poet
• Francesc Fontanella, Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
• Luo Mu, Chinese painter, poet and prose writer

  Deaths

• June 4 - Péter Révay, 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, Spanish
• November 4 - Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet and bucolic writer, drowned
• December 13 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech poet and playwright
• John Owen, Welsh poet and epigrammatist writing in Latin
• Mathew Roydon, English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers