title: 1624 in poetry
text: # 1624 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Anonymous, Loves Garland; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchers, and Gloves, anthology
  * George Chapman, translator, Batrachomyomachia, publication year uncertain; the original work had been wrongly ascribed to Homer in antiquity; the book contains hymns and epigrams also not written by Homer
  * Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge Women, partly in verse
  * Francis Quarles:
     * Job Militant: With meditations divine and morall
     * Sions Elegies, Wept by Jeremie the Prophet (see also Sions Sonnets 1625)
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * August 22 – Jean Renaud de Segrais (died 1701), French poet and novelist
  * October 26 – Dosoftei (died 1693), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
  * December 25 – Johannes Scheffler, also known as "Angelus Silesius" (died 1677), German poetry mystic and poet
  * date not known – Edward Howard (died 1700), playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * Yuan Zhongdao (born 1570), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official
  