1613 in poetry
# 1613 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* English poet Francis Quarles attends on the newly-married Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.

## Works published

### Great Britain

* Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne
* William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
* Henry Parrot, Laquei Ridiculosi; or, Springes for Woodcocks
* George Wither:
   * Abuses Stript, and Whipt; or, Satirical Essayes
   * Epithalamia; or, Nuptiall Poems, the work states "1612" but was published this year
* Richard Zouch, The Dove; or, Passages of Cosmography

**On the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1612**

See also 1612 in poetry

The November 6, 1612 death of Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, at age 18, occasions these poems:

* Thomas Campion, Songs of Mourning: Bewailing the Untimely Death of Prince Henry, verse and music; music by Giovanni Coperario (or "Copario"), said to have been John Cooper, an Englishman
* George Chapman, An Epicede or Funerall Song, the work states "1612" but was published this year
* John Davies, The Muses-Teares for the Losse of their Hope
* William Drummond of Hawthornden, Tears on the Death of Moeliades
* Joshua Sylvester, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, originally published in 1612, the book went into its third edition this year, with Elegy upon [...] Prince Henry by John Donne added to this edition; (also includes poems in English, French, Latin and Italian by Walter Quin)

### Spain

* La Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea by Luis de Góngora y Argote

## Births

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

* January 20 – Lucy Hastings (died 1679), Irish-born English poet and Countess of Huntingdon
* April 21 (bapt.) – Franciscus Plante (died 1690), Dutch poet and chaplain
* June 16 – John Cleveland (died 1658), English
* November 5 – Isaac de Benserade (died 1691), French
* Also:
   * Richard Crashaw, born about this year (died 1649), English poet, styled "the divine," one of the Metaphysical poets
   * Shah Inayatullah (died 1701), poet from Sindh, Pakistan
   * Khushal Khattak (died 1689), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
   * Ye Xiaowan born about this year, Chinese poet and daughter of poet Shen Yixiu; also sister of women poets Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaoluan

## Deaths

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

* January 2 – Salima Sultan Begum (Makhfi) (born 1539), Mughal empress consort and Urdu poet
* March – Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola, (born 1559), Spanish playwright and poet
* April 6–9 – Natshinnaung (born (1578), Toungoo prince, poet and musician (executed)
* August 22 – Dominicus Baudius (born 1561), Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
* September 15 – Sir Thomas Overbury (born 1581), English poet and essayist (probably poisoned by Frances Howard, Countess of Somerset)
* October 9 – Henry Constable (born 1562), English Catholic polemicist and poet
* October 22 – Mathurin Régnier (born 1573), French satirical poet; nephew of Philippe Desportes
* November 16 – Trajano Boccalini (born 1556), Italian satirical poet
* Also:
   * Govindadasa (born 1535), Bengali Vaishnava poet known for his body of devotional songs addressed to Krishna
   * Phùng Khắc Khoan (born 1528), Vietnamese military strategist, politician, diplomat and poet
   * Dinko Zlatarić (born 1558), Croatian poet and translator
