1604 in poetry
# 1604 in poetry

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

## Works

### Great Britain

* Sir William Alexander:
   * Aurora
   * A Paraenesis to the Prince (to Henry, Prince of Wales)
* Thomas Bateson, Cantus (the first English madrigals)
* Nicholas Breton, The Passionate Shepheard; or, The Shepheardes Love, written under the pen name "Bonerto"
* Thomas Churchyard, Churchyards Good Will, on the death of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury
* John Cooke, Epigrames
* Thomas Dekker, Newes from Graves-end: Sent to Nobody, published anonymously
* Michael Drayton:
   * Moyses in a Map of his Miracles
   * The Owle
   * A Paean Triumphall
* Samuel Rowlands, Looke to it: for, Ile Stabbe Ye
* Anthony Skoloker, Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love

### Other

* Bernardo de Balbuena, La Grandeza Mexicana ("Mexico's Grandeur"), Spanish poet and churchman at this time in Mexico
* Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Discours pour servir de Préface sur le Sujet de la Satyre ("Discourse Serving as a Preface on the Subject of Satire") published from this year through 1605

## Births

* January 4 – Jakob Balde (died 1668), German scholar, poet and teacher
* July 8 – Heinrich Albert (died 1651), German composer and poet
* August 4 – François Hédelin (died 1676), French abbé of Aubignac and Meymac, poet and playwright
* October 16 – Assoucy (died 1677), French musician and burlesque poet
* November 23 (bapt.) – Jasper Mayne (died 1672), English clergyman, translator, minor poet and dramatist
* Also:
   * Charles Cotin (died 1681), French abbé, philosopher and poet
   * Girolamo Graziani (died 1675), Italian poet
   * Philippe Habert (died 1637), French poet
   * Cheng Zhengkui (died 1670), Chinese landscape painter and poet

## Deaths

* April 1 – Thomas Churchyard (born c. 1520), English poet and author
* June 24 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (born 1550), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
* October 8 – Janus Dousa (born 1545), Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist
* November – Thomas Storer (born c. 1571), English poet
* Also – Ma Xianglan (born 1548), Chinese artist, playwright, poet and calligrapher; a woman
