1639 in poetry

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Works published

 * Robert Davenport, A Crowne for a Conquerour; and Too Late to Call Backe Yesterday
 * Henry Glapthorne, Poems

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 5 (bapt.) – Charles Sedley (died 1701), English wit, dramatist, poet and statesman
 * Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (died 1720), French poet and wit

Deaths
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 * May 21 – Tommaso Campanella (born 1568), Italian philosopher and poet
 * August 20 – Martin Opitz (born 1597), German
 * October – Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (born 1585), English poet, translator and dramatist
 * December – Sir Henry Wotton (born 1568), English diplomat, author and poet
 * Possible date – John Ford (born 1586), English playwright and poet