1644 in poetry
# 1644 in poetry

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## Works published

### Great Britain

* John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published
* Francis Quarles:
   * Barnabas and Boanerges: Or, wine and oyle for afflicted soules, Part 2 also published this year in an unauthorized edition as Barnabas and Boanerges; both parts published together under the title Judgement and Mercie for Afflicted Soules 1646
   * The Shepheards Oracle

### Other

* Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Pegnesische Schäfergedicht

## Births

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

* Matsuo Bashō (died 1694), famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, especially Haiku
* Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (died 1723), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
* Frances Norton, Lady Norton (died 1731), English poetry religious poet and prose writer

## Deaths

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

* Nicholas Bourbon (born 1574), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
* Peter Hausted (born 1605), playwright, poet, preacher
* Geoffrey Keating (born 1569), Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
* Rhys Prichard (born 1579), Welsh language poet and a vicar
* Francis Quarles (born 1592), English
* George Sandys (born 1578), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Church of England Archbishop Edwin Sandys
* Luís Vélez de Guevara (born 1579), Spanish dramatist, poet, and novelist
