1604 in poetry

Events

Works

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Sir William Alexander:
• * Aurora
• * A Paraenesis to the Prince
• Thomas Bateson, Cantus
• Nicholas Breton, The Passionate Shepheard; or, The Shepheardes Love, written under the pen name "Bonerto"
• Thomas Churchyard, Churchyards Good Will, on the death of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury
• John Cooke, Epigrames
• Thomas Dekker, Newes from Graves-end: Sent to Nobody, published anonymously
• Michael Drayton:
• * Moyses in a Map of his Miracles
• * The Owle
• * A Paean Triumphall
• Samuel Rowlands, Looke to it: for, Ile Stabbe Ye
• Anthony Skoloker, Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love

  Other

• Bernardo de Balbuena, La Grandeza Mexicana, Spanish poet and churchman at this time in Mexico
• Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Discours pour servir de Préface sur le Sujet de la Satyre published from this year through 1605

  Births

• January 4 - Jakob Balde, German scholar, poet and teacher
• July 8 - Heinrich Albert, German composer and poet
• August 4 - François Hédelin, French abbé of Aubignac and Meymac, poet and playwright
• October 16 - Assoucy, French musician and burlesque poet
• November 23 - Jasper Mayne, English clergyman, translator, minor poet and dramatist
• Also:
• * Charles Cotin, French abbé, philosopher and poet
• * Girolamo Graziani, Italian poet
• * Philippe Habert, French poet
• * Cheng Zhengkui, Chinese landscape painter and poet

  Deaths

• April 1 - Thomas Churchyard, English poet and author
• June 24 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
• October 8 - Janus Dousa, Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist
• November - Thomas Storer, English poet
• Also - Ma Xianglan, Chinese artist, playwright, poet and calligrapher; a woman