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This article covers 1604 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Nicholas Breton, The Passionate Shepheard, or The shepheardes love... With many excellent conceited poems and pleasant sonnets, fit for young heads to passe away, written under the pen name "Bonerto"[1]
Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye, Discours pour servir de Préface sur le Sujet de la Satyre ("Discourse Serving as a Preface on the Subject of Satire") published from this year through 1605
June 24 –Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (born 1550), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
October 8 –Janus Dousa (born 1545), Dutch statesman, historian, poet and philologist
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