1607 in poetry
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Works
- Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works[1]
- John Davies, Yehovah Summa Totalis; or, All in All, and, the Same for Ever; or, An Addition to Mirum in Modum
- Michael Drayton, The Legend of Great Cromwel[1]
- Thomas Ford, Musicke of sundrie kindes[1]
- Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne[1]
- Robert Jones, The First Set of Madrigals (verse and music)[1]
- Gervase Markham, Rodomonths Infernall; or, The Divell Conquered, translated from Philippe Desportes' French translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso[1]
- Samuel Rowlands:
Births
- March 12 â Paul Gerhardt (died 1676), German hymn writer
- March 8 â Johann von Rist (died 1667), German
- April 13 (bapt.) â Robert Chamberlain (died 1660), English poet and dramatist[1]
- November 1 â Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (died 1658), German poet and translator
- November 5 â Anna Maria van Schurman (died 1678), Dutch
- date unknown
Deaths
- May â Sir Edward Dyer (born 1543), English courtier and poet
- c. May â Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, poet and translator[1]
- June â Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator
- July 7 â Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (born 1563), English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"
- September 18 â Abraham Fleming (born c. 1552), English poet, translator and antiquarian[1]
- Also:
- Henry Chettle, death year uncertain (born c. 1560), English playwright, writer and poet
- Dinko Ranjina (born 1536), Croatian