Editing 1627 in literature

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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.<ref>{{cite book|author=Marvin J. Heller|title=Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EAiwCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA246|date=26 December 2007|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-474-2392-8|pages=246}}</ref>

==New books==
===Prose===
*[[Francis Bacon]] (died [[1626 in literature|1626]]) – ''Sylva Sylvarum, or A Natural History'' and ''[[New Atlantis]]''<ref>''Francis Bacon, New Atlantis and The Great Instauration'', Jerry Weinberger, ed., (Wheeling, IL: Crofts Classics, 1989), xxv–xxvi, xxxi.</ref>
*[[Jean-Pierre Camus]] – ''Hyacinthe''
*[[George Hakewill]] – ''An Apologie or Declaration of the Power and Providence of God''<ref>P. E. McCullough, ‘Hakewill, George (bap. 1578, d. 1649)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11885, accessed 19 July 2009]</ref>
*[[Marin Mersenne]] – ''Traité de l'harmonie universelle''<ref>{{cite book|author=Kerry Scott Grant|title=Dr. Burney as Critic and Historian of Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fZ4IAQAAMAAJ|year=1983|publisher=UMI Research Press|isbn=978-0-8357-1375-7|page=57|language=en}}</ref>
*[[Honoré d'Urfé]] (died [[1625 in literature|1625]]) – ''[[L'Astrée]]'' (completed)

==New drama==
*[[William Davenant]] – ''The Cruel Brother''
*William Hawkins – ''Apollo Shroving''
*[[Philip Massinger]] – ''[[The Great Duke of Florence]]''<ref>Ward, Adolphus William. ''A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne.'' London, Macmillan, 1875, Vol. 2, p. 275.</ref>
*[[Thomas Vincent (minister)|Thomas Vincent]] – ''Paria'' (in [[Latin]])

==Poetry==
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*[[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 in literature|1704]])
*[[November 29]] – [[John Ray]], English naturalist (died [[1705 in literature|1705]])
*''Unknown dates''
**[[John Flavel]], English religious writer and Presbyterian minister (died [[1691 in literature|1691]])
**[[Dorothy Osborne]], English literary correspondent (died [[1691 in literature|1695]])

==Deaths==
*[[April 12]] ''(burial)'' – [[John Minsheu]], English linguist and lexicographer (born [[1560 in literature|1560]])
*[[April 19]] – [[John Beaumont (poet)|John Beaumont]], English dramatist and poet (born [[1583 in literature|1583]])<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Beaumont, Sir John | volume= 3 |last= Gosse |first= Edmund William |author-link= Edmund Gosse | pages = 591&ndash;592 |short= 1}}</ref>
*[[May 24]] – [[Luis de Góngora]], Spanish lyric poet (born [[1561 in literature|1561]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Hugh Chisholm|author2=James Louis Garvin|title=The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature & General Information|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nuezwLN7O0QC|year=1926|publisher=Encyclcopædia Britannica|page=234}}</ref>
*[[June 22]] – [[Lawrence Beyerlinck]], Flemish theologian and encyclopedist (born [[1578 in literature|1578]])
*[[June 27]] – [[John Hayward (historian)|John Hayward]], English historian (born c.1560)
*[[July 4]] ''(burial)'' – [[Thomas Middleton]], English dramatist and poet (born [[1580 in literature|1580]])
*[[September 20]] – [[Jan Gruter]], Flemish critic (born [[1560 in literature|1560]])
*[[September 29]] – [[Johannes Acronius]], Dutch theologian (born [[1565 in literature|1565]])
*October – [[Bernardo de Balbuena]], Spanish-born Latin American poet (born [[1561 in literature|1561]])
*December – [[Henry Condell]], English actor, co-compiler of the [[First Folio]] (date of birth unknown)

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