1621 in poetry

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

Events

 * November 22 – English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Great Britain

 * John Ashmore, translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments Annexed
 * Richard Brathwaite:
 * Natures Embassie; or, The Wilde-Mans Measures
 * Times Curtaine Drawne; or, The Anatomie of Vanitie
 * Ralph Crane, The Workes of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual
 * Francis Quarles, Hadassa; or, The History of Queene Ester
 * George Sandys, The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, published anonymously (see also Ovid's Metamorphosis 1626)
 * Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum: With a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner, reall in matter
 * John Taylor:
 * The Praise, Antiquity, and Commodity, of Beggery, Beggers and Begging
 * Superbiae Flagellum; or, The Whip of Pride
 * George Wither, The Songs of the Old Testament, verses and music
 * Lady Mary Wroth (Sir Philip Sidney's niece), Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sonnet sequence written since 1613 partially included in The Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Other

 * Théophile de Viau, Œuvres poétiques, France

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 31 – Andrew Marvell (died 1678), English metaphysical poet and parliamentarian
 * April 17 – Henry Vaughan (died 1695), Welsh poet
 * July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine (died 1695), French poet and fable writer
 * July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (died 1693), Polish poet and member of the noble class Szlachta
 * Rupa Bhavani (died 1721), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
 * Jane Cavendish (died 1669), English poet and playwright
 * Wacław Potocki (died 1696), Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, poet and writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini (born 1562), Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist
 * August 3 – Guillaume du Vair (born 1556), French writer and poet
 * August 15 – John Barclay (born 1582), Scottish satirist and poet
 * September 25 – Mary Herbert (born 1561), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
 * October 12 – Pierre Matthieu (born 1563), French playwright, poet and historian