1624 in poetry
# 1624 in poetry

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## Works published

* Anonymous, Loves Garland; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchers, and Gloves, anthology
* George Chapman, translator, Batrachomyomachia, publication year uncertain; the original work had been wrongly ascribed to Homer in antiquity; the book contains hymns and epigrams also not written by Homer
* Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge Women, partly in verse
* Francis Quarles:
   * Job Militant: With meditations divine and morall
   * Sions Elegies, Wept by Jeremie the Prophet (see also Sions Sonnets 1625)

## Births

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

* August 22 – Jean Renaud de Segrais (died 1701), French poet and novelist
* October 26 – Dosoftei (died 1693), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
* December 25 – Johannes Scheffler, also known as "Angelus Silesius" (died 1677), German poetry mystic and poet
* date not known – Edward Howard (died 1700), playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard

## Deaths

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* Yuan Zhongdao (born 1570), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official
