1619 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1619.

Events

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

Johannes Valentinus Andreae
- Reipublicae Christianopolitanae descriptio
- 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
Paolo Sarpi – History of the Council of Trent
John Taylor – A Kicksey Winsey, or, A Lerry Come-Twang

Anonymous – Two Wise Men and All the Rest Fools (published)
Beaumont and Fletcher
- A King and No King (published)
- The Maid's Tragedy (published)
Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero – De Klucht van de koe; Stommen ridder
John Fletcher – The Humorous Lieutenant
Fletcher and Philip Massinger – Sir John van Olden Barnavelt
Lope de Vega – Fuente Ovejuna (published)
Thomas Middleton – The Masque of Heroes

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 date
Shalom Shabazi, Jewish Yemeni poet (died 1720)
Probable year of birth
- 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 19 – Lucilio Vanini, Italian philosopher (born 1585)
March 13 – Richard Burbage, English actor and theatre proprietor (born c. 1567)
October 14 – Samuel Daniel, English Poet Laureate and historian (born 1562)
October 18 – Petrus Gudelinus, Dutch jurist (born 1550)
Probable year of birth – Ginés Pérez de Hita, Spanish novelist and poet (born c. 1544)

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