1631 in poetry
# 1631 in poetry

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

## Works

### France

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

### 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 (Part 2 in 1648)

### 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

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

* January 1 – Katharine Philips (died 1664), Welsh
* August 19 (Old style: August 9) – John Dryden (died 1700) 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 (died 1705), English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"
* date not known – John Phillips (died 1706), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton

## Deaths

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

* February 4 – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (born 1562), Spanish poet, writer and chronicler; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
* February 7 – Gabriel Harvey (born c.1545), English poet and author
* March 31 – John Donne (born 1572), English poet, preacher
* December 23 – Michael Drayton (born 1563), English
