title: 1619 in poetry
text: # 1619 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * April – English poet Ben Jonson visits Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
  * c. October – Following the death of Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson becomes Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England (on Johnson's death in 1637 he is succeeded by William Davenant).
  * Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg.
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Richard Braithwaite, writing under the pen name "Musophilus", A New Spring Shadowed in Sundry Pithie Poems
  * Sir John Davies, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 1599, 1622)
  * Michael Drayton, Idea
  * Henry Hutton, Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams
  * George Wither, Fidelia
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 21 – Anders Bording (died 1677), Danish poet and journalist
  * March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac (died 1655), French soldier and poet
  * Moses Belmonte (died 1647), Spanish polyglot poet and translator
  * Bedřich Bridel (died 1680), Czech baroque writer, poet and missionary
  * William Chamberlayne (died 1703), English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier
  * Morgan Llwyd (died 1659), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer
  * Shalom Shabazi (died 1720), Jewish poet of Yemen
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * April 21 – Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (born 1550), Polish rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
  * October 14 – Samuel Daniel (born 1562), English Poet Laureate and historian
  * Frei Agostinho da Cruz (born 1540), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese
  * Probable year – Ginés Pérez de Hita (born 1544), Spanish novelist and poet
  