1634 in poetry

Events

• The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón.

  Works published

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• Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published
• Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, anonymously published
• William Habington, Castara, anonymously published
• Alexander Ross, Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados, cento
• Alice Sutcliffe, Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse, in prose and verse

  Other

• Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, Les Avis et presents, including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse, France
• Lope de Vega, Spain, La Gatomaquia, a mock epic, and :es:Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos|Rimas humanas y divinas del licenciado Tomé de Burguillos

  Births

• January 16 - Dorothe Engelbretsdotter, Norwegian poet
• December 15 - Thomas Kingo, Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer

  Deaths

• May 12 - George Chapman, English dramatist, translator and poet
• June 25 - John Marston, English dramatist, poet and satirist
• August 23 - Tomos Prys, Welsh-language poet
• Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet