1619 in poetry
# 1619 in poetry

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

## Events

* April – English poet Ben Jonson visits Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
* c. October – Following the death of Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England (on Johnson's death in 1637 he is succeeded by William Davenant).
* Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg.

## Works published

* Richard Braithwaite, writing under the pen name "Musophilus", A New Spring Shadowed in Sundry Pithie Poems
* Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1622)
* Michael Drayton, Idea
* Henry Hutton, Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams
* George Wither, Fidelia

## Births

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

* January 21 – Anders Bording (died 1677), Danish poet and journalist
* March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac (died 1655), French soldier and poet
* Moses Belmonte (died 1647), Spanish polyglot poet and translator
* Bedřich Bridel (died 1680), Czech baroque writer, poet and missionary
* William Chamberlayne (died 1703), English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier
* Morgan Llwyd (died 1659), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer
* Shalom Shabazi (died 1720), Jewish poet of Yemen

## Deaths

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

* April 21 – Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (born 1550), Polish rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
* October 14 – Samuel Daniel (born 1562), English Poet Laureate and historian
* Frei Agostinho da Cruz (born 1540), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese
* Probable year – Ginés Pérez de Hita (born 1544), Spanish novelist and poet
