1630 in poetry
# 1630 in poetry

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## Works published

### Great Britain

* William Davenant, Ieffereidos
* John Donne, A Help to Memory and Discourse, including The Broken Heart and part of "Song" ("Go and catch a falling star ...")
* Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium
* Thomas May, A Continuation of Lucan's Historicall Poem Till the Death of Julius Caesar (see also Lucan's Pharsalia 1626, 1627)
* Diana Primrose, A Chaine of Pearle; or a memoriall of the peerless graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth
* Francis Quarles, Divine Poems
* Thomas Randolph, Aristippus; or, The Joviall Philosopher, published anonymously
* Nathanael Richards, The Celestiall Publican
* Alexander Ross, Three Decads of Divine Meditations
* John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet

### Other

* José Pellicer de Salas y Tovar, Complete Readings of the Works by Luis de Góngora y Argote, criticism; Spain

## Births

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

* January 17 – Sultan Bahu (died 1691), Muslim Sufi saint and poet
* April 28 – Charles Cotton (died 1687), English poet and writer
* Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (died 1708), Puerto Rico's first native born poet

## Deaths

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

* March – Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson" (born 1570), English-born writer of madrigals
* April 29 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (born 1552), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
* November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein died (born 1586), German
* Also:
   * Pedro Bucaneg (born 1592), blind Filipino poet, "Father of Ilokano literature"
   * Gian Domenico Cancianini (born 1547), Italian, Latin-language poet
   * Samuel Rowlands, died about this year (born c. 1570), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
   * Jacob Uziel (born unknown), Spanish physician and poet
