1608 in poetry

none 1608 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Scottish poet Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study medicine at Padua. Works Clarinda, Discurso en loor de la poesía (Discourse in Praise of Poetry), poem by pseudonymous Peruvian female poet published in Spain Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigramsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Samuel Rowlands, Humors Looking Glasse Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres (authorship is claimed by Tofte in The Blazon of Jealousie (1615) although Gervase Markham's name is on the title page) Births June – Sir Richard Fanshawe (died 1666), English diplomat, translator, and poet December 8 – Vendela Skytte (died 1629), Swedish poet and lady of letters December 9 – John Milton (died 1674), English poet and writer December 20 (bapt.) – Sir Aston Cokayne (died 1684), English poet and playwright Also: Menahem Lonzano (born unknown), Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer and poet Vaman Pandit (died 1695), Marathi scholar and poet of India Samarth Ramdas (died 1681), Marathi saint and religious poet Tukaram (died 1650), Sant (Saint) and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement Chen Zilong (died 1647), Chinese poet of the Tang SchoolPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Deaths February 16 – Nicolas Rapin (born 1535), French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist February 26 – Sir Thomas Craig (born c. 1538), Scottish jurist and poet April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (born 1536), English statesman and poet July 26 – Pablo de Céspedes (born 1538), Spanish painter, poet and architect September – Mary Shakespeare, née Arden (born c. 1537), mother of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare October 26 – Philipp Nicolai (born 1556), German poet and composer Also: George Bannatyne (born 1545), Scottish collector of poems Henry Lok (born c. 1553), English Nicolas de Montreux (born c 1561), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (born 1536), French Andrzej Zbylitowski (born 1565), Polish Notes Category:17th-century poetry Poetry