This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1627 .
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New drama
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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)
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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^ 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.