1608 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1608 in poetry

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Events

Henry Peacham the younger, The More the Merrier: Containing: threescore and odde haad-lesse epigrams^[1]
Samuel Rowlands, Humors Looking Glasse^[1]
Robert Tofte, Ariosto's Satyres (authorship is claimed by Tofte in The Blazon of Jealousie (1615) although Gervase Markham's name is on the title page)^[1]

June – Sir Richard Fanshawe (died 1666), English diplomat, translator, and poet
December 8 – Vendela Skytte (died 1629), Swedish poet and lady of letters
December 9 – John Milton (died 1674), English poet and writer
December 20 (bapt.) – Sir Aston Cokayne (died 1684), English poet and playwright^[1]
Also:
- Menahem Lonzano (born unknown), Palestinian Masoretic and midrashic scholar, lexicographer and poet
- Vaman Pandit (died 1695), Marathi scholar and poet of India
- Samarth Ramdas (died 1681), Marathi saint and religious poet
- Tukaram (died 1650), Sant (Saint) and spiritual poet during a Bhakti movement
- Chen Zilong (died 1647), Chinese poet of the Tang School^[2]

February 16 – Nicolas Rapin (born 1535), French magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist
February 26 – Sir Thomas Craig (born c. 1538), Scottish jurist and poet
April 19 – Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset (born 1536), English statesman and poet
July 26 – Pablo de Céspedes (born 1538), Spanish painter, poet and architect
September – Mary Shakespeare, née Arden (born c. 1537), mother of English poet and dramatist William Shakespeare
October 26 – Philipp Nicolai (born 1556), German poet and composer
Also:
- George Bannatyne (born 1545), Scottish collector of poems
- Henry Lok (born c. 1553), English^[1]
- Nicolas de Montreux (born c 1561), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
- Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye (born 1536), French
- Andrzej Zbylitowski (born 1565), Polish

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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