1631 in poetry

===France=== • Georges de Scudéry Œuvres poétiques ("Poetic Works"), • Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac: • Aristippe ou De la cour • Le Prince, eulogy on King Louis XIII ===Great Britain=== • Charles Aleyn, The Battailes of Crescey, and Poctiers • Richard Braithwait: • The English Gentleman • The English Gentlewoman • William L'Isle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica) • David Lloyd, The Legend of Captain Jones, Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn (Part 2 in 1648) Other • Francisco de Quevedo, La aguja de navegar cultos con la receta para hacer Soledades en un día, satire attacking poets who use gongorino or culterano language, Spain, criticism ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • January 1 – Katharine Philips (died 1664), Welsh • August 19 (Old style: August 9) – John Dryden (died 1700) influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. • October 18 – Michael Wigglesworth (died 1705), English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets" • date not known – John Phillips (died 1706), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • February 4 – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (born 1562), Spanish poet, writer and chronicler; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola • February 7 – Gabriel Harvey (born c.1545), English poet and author • March 31 – John Donne (born 1572), English poet, preacher • December 23 – Michael Drayton (born 1563), English ==See also==