1619 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1619.

Events

March – After the death of Richard Burbage, his place as leading actor of the King's Men in London is filled by Joseph Taylor.
April – Ben Jonson visits the Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden.
c. October – After the death of Samuel Daniel in Somerset, his place as Poet Laureate of the Kingdom of England is filled by Ben Jonson.
unknown dates
- René Descartes has a dream that helps him develop his ideas on analytical geometry.^[1]
- William Jaggard and Thomas Pavier publish in London the so-called False Folio, a collection of Shakespearean and pseudo-Shakespearean plays mostly with false imprints and dates.^[2]

Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio^[3]
- Turris Babel
Jacob Boehme – De Tribus Principiis (On the Three Principles of Divine Being)
Philipp Clüver
- Sardinia et Corsica Antiqua
- Siciliae Antique libri duo
Robert Fludd – Utriusque Cosmi...Historia, Tomi Secundi (The History of the Two Worlds, Volume 2)
Johannes Kepler – Harmonices Mundi (an attack on Fludd's Neoplatonist cosmology)
John Pitseus – De Illustribus Angliae scriptoribus
Samuel Purchas – Purchas his Pilgrim or Microcosmus, or the Historie of Man. Relating the Wonders of his Generation, Vanities in his Degeneration, Necessities of his Regenerations
Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang
William Whately – A Bride-Bvsh; or a Direction for Married Persons. Plainely describing the Dvties common to both, and peculiar to each of them

Robert Carliell – Britaine's glorie, or An allegoricall dreame... (a defence of the new Church of England)
George Wither – Fidelia

March 6 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier and poet (died 1655)
June 24 – Rijcklof van Goens, Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies 1678–81 and travel writer (died 1682)
November 7 – Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French biographer (died 1692)
December 28 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (died 1688)
unknown dates
- Morgan Llwyd, Welsh preacher, poet and writer (died 1659)^[4]
- Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
probable
- William Chamberlayne, English poet, playwright, physician and Royalist soldier (died 1703)
- Alice Curwen, English autobiographer and Quaker (died 1679)
- Henry (Heinrich) Oldenburg, German-born editor, correspondent and Royal Society secretary (died 1677)

February 9 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
February 12 – Pierre de Larivey, Italian-born French dramatist (born 1549)^[5]
March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
July 12 – Olivier de Serres, French writer on agriculture and horticulture (born 1539)
October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)^[6]
October 19 – Fujiwara Seika, Japanese philosopher (born 1561)

probable

- Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)
- Pierre de La Primaudaye, French Protestant writer (born 1546)^[7]

^ "René Descartes". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
^ Michigan Academician. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. 1970. p. 95.
^ in Latin.
^ "Morgan Llwyd | Welsh author". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 25 March 2019.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Larivey, Pierre". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 217.
^ G (in Dutch). 1862. p. 535.
^ Stuart Gillespie (1 August 2001). Shakespeare's Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources. A&C Black. p. 276. ISBN 978-1-84714-338-9.