1608 in poetry

Events

• Scottish poet Arthur Johnston goes to Italy to study medicine at Padua.

  Works

• Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigrams
• Samuel Rowlands, Humors Looking Glasse
• Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres

  Births

• June - Sir Richard Fanshawe, English diplomat, translator, and poet
• December 8 - Vendela Skytte, Swedish poet and lady of letters
• December 9 - John Milton, English poet and writer
• December 20 - Sir Aston Cokayne, English poet and playwright
• Also:
• * Menahem Lonzano, Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer and poet
• * Vaman Pandit, Marathi scholar and poet of India
• * Samarth Ramdas, Marathi saint and religious poet
• * Tukaram, Sant and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement
• * Chen Zilong, Chinese poet of the Tang School

  Deaths

• February 16 - Nicolas Rapin, French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
• February 26 - Sir Thomas Craig, Scottish jurist and poet
• April 19 - Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset, English statesman and poet
• July 26 - Pablo de Céspedes, Spanish painter, poet and architect
• September - Mary Shakespeare, née Arden, mother of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare
• October 26 - Philipp Nicolai, German poet and composer
• Also:
• * George Bannatyne, Scottish collector of poems
• * Henry Lok, English
• * Nicolas de Montreux, French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
• * Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, French
• * Andrzej Zbylitowski, Polish