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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1627.

Events

January 1 – Menasseh Ben Israel, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam, produces its first publication, a Spanish rite prayer book.^[1]

New books

Prose

Francis Bacon (died 1626) – Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History and New Atlantis ^[2]
Jean-Pierre Camus – Hyacinthe
George Hakewill – An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God^[3]
Marin Mersenne – Traité de l'harmonie universelle^[4]
Honoré d'Urfé (died 1625) – L'Astrée (completed)

New drama

William Davenant – The Cruel Brother
William Hawkins – Apollo Shroving
Philip Massinger – The Great Duke of Florence ^[5]
Thomas Vincent – Paria (in Latin)

Poetry

Michael Drayton – miscellaneous poems, including The Battle of Agincourt, First Steps up Parnassus, and Nymphidia
Phineas Fletcher – Locustae, vel Pietas Jesuitica (in Latin and English)

Births

August 8 – Joseph Moxon, English printer and lexicographer (died 1691)
September 27 – Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, French theologian (died 1704)
November 29 – John Ray, English naturalist (died 1705)
Unknown dates
- John Flavel, English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (died 1691)
- Dorothy Osborne, English literary correspondent (died 1695)

Deaths

April 12 (burial) – John Minsheu, English linguist and lexicographer (born 1560)
April 19 – John Beaumont, English dramatist and poet (born 1583)^[6]
May 24 – Luis de Góngora, Spanish lyric poet (born 1561)^[7]
June 22 – Lawrence Beyerlinck, Flemish theologian and encyclopedist (born 1578)
June 27 – John Hayward, English historian (born c.1560)
July 4 (burial) – Thomas Middleton, English dramatist and poet (born 1580)
September 20 – Jan Gruter, Flemish critic (born 1560)
September 29 – Johannes Acronius, Dutch theologian (born 1565)
October – Bernardo de Balbuena, Spanish-born Latin American poet (born 1561)
December – Henry Condell, English actor, co-compiler of the First Folio (date of birth unknown)

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1621 (MDCXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1621st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 621st year of the 2nd millennium, the 21st year of the 17th century, and the 2nd year of the 1620s decade. As of the start of 1621, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

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References

↑ Marvin J. Heller (26 December 2007). Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. BRILL. p. 246. ISBN 978-90-474-2392-8.
↑ Francis Bacon, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration, Jerry Weinberger, ed., (Wheeling, IL: Crofts Classics, 1989), xxv–xxvi, xxxi.
↑ P. E. McCullough, ‘Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 19 July 2009
↑ Kerry Scott Grant (1983). Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music. UMI Research Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8357-1375-7.
↑ Ward, Adolphus William. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne. London, Macmillan, 1875, Vol. 2, p. 275.
↑ Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Beaumont, Sir John" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 3 (11th ed.). pp. 591–592.
↑ Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclcopædia Britannica. p. 234.

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[1] Marvin J. Heller (26 December 2007). Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book. BRILL. p. 246. ISBN 978-90-474-2392-8.

[2] Francis Bacon, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration, Jerry Weinberger, ed., (Wheeling, IL: Crofts Classics, 1989), xxv–xxvi, xxxi.

[3] P. E. McCullough, ‘Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 19 July 2009

[4] Kerry Scott Grant (1983). Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music. UMI Research Press. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-8357-1375-7.

[5] Ward, Adolphus William. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne. London, Macmillan, 1875, Vol. 2, p. 275.

[6] Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Beaumont, Sir John" . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 3 (11th ed.). pp. 591–592.

[7] Hugh Chisholm; James Louis Garvin (1926). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information. Encyclcopædia Britannica. p. 234.

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