1644 in poetry

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Works published

Great Britain

• John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published
• Francis Quarles:
  • Barnabas and Boanerges: Or, wine and oyle for afflicted soules, Part 2 also published this year in an unauthorized edition as Barnabas and Boanerges; both parts published together under the title Judgement and Mercie for Afflicted Soules 1646
  • The Shepheards Oracle

Other

• Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Pegnesische Schäfergedicht

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Matsuo Bashō (died 1694), famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, especially Haiku
• Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (died 1723), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
• Frances Norton, Lady Norton (died 1731), English poetry religious poet and prose writer

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Nicholas Bourbon (born 1574), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
• Peter Hausted (born 1605), playwright, poet, preacher
• Geoffrey Keating (born 1569), Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
• Rhys Prichard (born 1579), Welsh language poet and a vicar
• Francis Quarles (born 1592), English
• George Sandys (born 1578), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Church of England Archbishop Edwin Sandys
• Luís Vélez de Guevara (born 1579), Spanish dramatist, poet, and novelist

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War