1621 in poetry
# 1621 in poetry

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

## Events

* November 22 – English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

## Works published

### Great Britain

* John Ashmore, translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments Annexed
* Richard Brathwaite:
   * Natures Embassie; or, The Wilde-Mans Measures
   * Times Curtaine Drawne; or, The Anatomie of Vanitie
* Ralph Crane, The Workes of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual
* Francis Quarles, Hadassa; or, The History of Queene Ester
* George Sandys, The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, published anonymously (see also Ovid's Metamorphosis 1626)
* Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum: With a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner, reall in matter
* John Taylor:
   * The Praise, Antiquity, and Commodity, of Beggery, Beggers and Begging
   * Superbiae Flagellum; or, The Whip of Pride
* George Wither, The Songs of the Old Testament, verses and music
* Lady Mary Wroth (Sir Philip Sidney's niece), Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sonnet sequence written since 1613 partially included in The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

### Other

* Théophile de Viau, Œuvres poétiques, France

## Births

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

* March 31 – Andrew Marvell (died 1678), English metaphysical poet and parliamentarian
* April 17 – Henry Vaughan (died 1695), Welsh poet
* July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine (died 1695), French poet and fable writer
* July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (died 1693), Polish poet and member of the noble class Szlachta
* Rupa Bhavani (died 1721), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
* Jane Cavendish (died 1669), English poet and playwright
* Wacław Potocki (died 1696), Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, poet and writer

## Deaths

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

* March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini (born 1562), Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist
* August 3 – Guillaume du Vair (born 1556), French writer and poet
* August 15 – John Barclay (born 1582), Scottish satirist and poet
* September 25 – Mary Herbert (born 1561), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
* October 12 – Pierre Matthieu (born 1563), French playwright, poet and historian
