1631 in poetry

Works

France">French poetry">France

• Georges de Scudéry Œuvres poétiques,
• Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac:
• * Aristippe ou De la cour
• * Le Prince, eulogy on King Louis XIII of France

  Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Charles Aleyn, The Battailes of Crescey, and Poctiers
• Richard Braithwait:
• * The English Gentleman
• * The English Gentlewoman
• William L'Isle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica)
• David Lloyd, The Legend of Captain Jones, Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn

  Other

• Francisco de Quevedo, La aguja de navegar cultos con la receta para hacer Soledades en un día, satire attacking poets who use gongorino or culterano language, Spain, criticism

  Births

• January 1 - Katharine Philips, Welsh
• August 19 - John Dryden influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
• October 18 - Michael Wigglesworth, English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
• date not known - John Phillips, poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton

  Deaths

• February 4 - Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola, Spanish poet, writer and chronicler; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
• February 7 - Gabriel Harvey, English poet and author
• March 31 - John Donne, English poet, preacher
• December 23 - Michael Drayton, English