1607 in poetry
# 1607 in poetry

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

## Works

* Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works
* John Davies, Yehovah Summa Totalis; or, All in All, and, the Same for Ever; or, An Addition to Mirum in Modum
* Michael Drayton, The Legend of Great Cromwel
* Thomas Ford, Musicke of sundrie kindes
* Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne
* Robert Jones, The First Set of Madrigals (verse and music)
* Gervase Markham, Rodomonths Infernall; or, The Divell Conquered, translated from Philippe Desportes' French translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
* Samuel Rowlands:
   * Democritus; or, Doctor Merry-man his Medicines, Against Melancholy Humors
   * Diogines Lanthorne

## Births

* March 12 – Paul Gerhardt (died 1676), German hymn writer
* March 8 – Johann von Rist (died 1667), German
* April 13 (bapt.) – Robert Chamberlain (died 1660), English poet and dramatist
* November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (died 1658), German poet and translator
* November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman (died 1678), Dutch
* date unknown
   * Alaol (died 1673), Bengali
   * Václav František Kocmánek (died 1679), Czech poet, author and historian
   * 1607/1608: Salabega (died unknown), Oriyan religious poet

## Deaths

* May – Sir Edward Dyer (born 1543), English courtier and poet
* c. May – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, poet and translator
* June – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator
* July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (born 1563), English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"
* September 18 – Abraham Fleming (born c. 1552), English poet, translator and antiquarian
* Also:
   * Henry Chettle, death year uncertain (born c. 1560), English playwright, writer and poet
   * Dinko Ranjina (born 1536), Croatian
