1601 in poetry

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

Events

 * John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton

Great Britain

 * Nicholas Breton, A Divine Poeme
 * Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint
 * Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune
 * Robert Jones:
 * The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts
 * The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres
 * Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus
 * Thomas Morley:
 * First Booke of Ayres
 * The Triumphes of Oriana
 * William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr
 * John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham

Other

 * Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques ("Collection of Poetic Works"), France

Births

 * August 22 – Georges de Scudéry (died 1667), French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry
 * Also:
 * John Earle born about this year (died 1665), English bishop, writer and poet
 * Antonio Enríquez Gómez (died 1661), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
 * Saib Tabrizi (died 1677), Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel

Deaths

 * April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd (born 1562), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
 * By May – Geoffrey Whitney (born 1548), English poet
 * August 4 – Edward Grant (born 1548), English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School
 * About this year – Thomas Nashe (born 1567), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist