1627 in literature

Events

• January 1 – Menasseh Ben Israel, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam, produces its first publication, a Spanish rite prayer book.

  New books

Prose

• Francis Bacon – Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History and New Atlantis
• Jean-Pierre Camus – Hyacinthe
• George Hakewill – An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God
• Marin Mersenne – Traité de l'harmonie universelle

  New drama

• William Davenant – The Cruel Brother
• William Hawkins – Apollo Shroving
• Philip Massinger – The Great Duke of Florence
• Thomas Vincent – Paria

  Poetry

• Michael Drayton – miscellaneous poems, including The Battle of Agincourt, First Steps up Parnassus, and Nymphidia
• Phineas Fletcher – Locustae, vel Pietas Jesuitica

  Births

• August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English printer and lexicographer
• September 27 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French theologian
• November 29 – John Ray, English naturalist
• Unknown dates
• *John Flavel, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister
• *Dorothy Osborne, English literary correspondent

  Deaths

• April 12 ' – John Minsheu, English linguist and lexicographer
• April 19 – John Beaumont, English dramatist and poet
• May 24 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish lyric poet
• June 22 – Lawrence Beyerlinck, Flemish theologian and encyclopedist
• June 27 – John Hayward, English historian
• July 4 ' – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist and poet
• September 20 – Jan Gruter, Flemish critic
• September 29 – Johannes Acronius, Dutch theologian
• October – Bernardo de Balbuena, Spanish-born Latin American poet
• December – Henry Condell, English actor, co-compiler of the First Folio