1619 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.

Events

 * March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
 * April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
 * c. October – After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
 * unknown dates
 * René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.
 * William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.

Prose

 * Johannes Valentinus Andreae
 * Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio
 * Turris Babel
 * Jacob Boehme – De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
 * Philipp Clüver
 * Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
 * Siciliae Antique libri duo
 * Robert Fludd – Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
 * Johannes Kepler – Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
 * John Pitseus – De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
 * Samuel Purchas – Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
 * Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
 * John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
 * William Whately – A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them

Drama

 * Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
 * Beaumont and Fletcher (published)
 * A King and No King
 * The Maid's Tragedy
 * Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero
 * De klucht van de koe
 * Stommen ridder
 * Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
 * John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
 * John Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
 * Philip Massinger and Nathan Field – The Fatal Dowry (approximate date)
 * Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

Poetry

 * Robert Carliell –  (a defence of the new Church of England)
 * George Wither – Fidelia

Births

 * March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
 * June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer (died 1682)
 * November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
 * December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (died 1688)
 * unknown dates
 * Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)
 * Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
 * probable
 * William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier (died 1703)
 * Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (died 1679)
 * Henry (Heinrich) Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary (died 1677)

Deaths
probable
 * February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
 * February 12 – Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)
 * March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
 * July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
 * October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
 * October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)
 * October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)
 * Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
 * Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)