1621 in literature
Overview of the events of 1621 in literature
Events from the year 1621 in literature .
Events
Uncertain date
New books
Prose
Drama
Poetry
Births
January 27 – Thomas Willis , English physician and natural philosopher (died 1675 )
March 18 – Henry Teonge , English diarist and naval chaplain (died 1690 )
March 31 – Andrew Marvell , English poet (died 1678 )
April 25 – Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery , Anglo-Irish dramatist (died 1679 )
July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine , French author of fables (died 1695 )
December 3 – Bohuslav Balbín , Czech Jesuit writer (died 1688 )
December 14 (baptised) – Thomas Long , English writer and cleric (died 1707 )
unknown date – Jane Cavendish , English poet and playwright (died 1669 )[ 6]
probable – Françoise Bertaut de Motteville , French memoirist (died 1689 )[ 7]
Possible year (1621 or 1622) – Richard Allestree , English scholar and cleric (died 1681 )
Deaths
January 25 – François Pithou , French author and jurist (born 1543 )[ 8]
March 4 – Ana de Jesús , Spanish nun and writer (born 1545 )
May 11 – Johann Arndt , German theologian (born 1555 )
June – William Strachey , English eye-witness historian (born 1572 )
August 3 – Guillaume du Vair , French writer (born 1556 )
August 15 – John Barclay , Scottish writer (born 1582 )
September 25 – Mary Sidney , English playwright and translator (born 1561 )
October 7 or 8 – Antoine de Montchrestien , French adventurer and dramatist (born c. 1575)
December 4 – Andrew Willet , English polemicist and cleric (born 1562 )
unknown date – Ludwig Hollonius , German dramatist (born c. 1570)[ 9]
Notes
^ Some sources such as the Dictionary of National Biography (1885) and the Encyclopædia Britannica , 11th edition spell the title "St. Albans";[ 1] [ 2] others, such as the 2007 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th edition , spell it "St. Alban".[ 3] [ 4]
References
^ Fowler, Thomas (1885). "Bacon, Francis (1561–1626)" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 346.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Adamson, Robert ; Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911), "Bacon, Francis ", in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica , vol. 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 135
^ Peltonen, Markku (2007) [2004]. "Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban (1561–1626)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/990 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Adamson, Robert (1878), "Francis Bacon" , in Baynes, T. S. (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica , vol. 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 200
^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 0-304-35730-8 .
^ Alexandra G. Bennett (23 August 2017). The Collected Works of Jane Cavendish . Taylor & Francis. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-317-03786-6 .
^ Françoise de Motteville (1902). Memoirs of Madame de Motteville on Anne of Austria and Her Court . Hardy, Pratt. p. 1.
^ Theologische Literaturzeitung (in German). Evangelische Verlagsanstalt . 1971. p. 51.
^ Richard Erich Schade (1976). Martin Böhme (1557-1622): The Lutheran Pastor as Writer . Yale University. p. 170.