1612 in Poetry - Births

Births

• February 8 – Samuel Butler (died 1680), English
• October 15 – Isaac de Benserade, French playwright and court poet, a member of the Académie française in 1674
• October 25 – James Graham (died 1650), 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose (Scotland) and poet

• Also:
  • Anne Bradstreet (died 1672), called "the chief poetess of Colonial America"; English-language
  • Edward King (died 1637), Irish poet who wrote in Latin in England; a friend of John Milton
  • Zhou Lianggong (died 1672), Chinese poet, essayist and art historian
  • Łukasz Opaliński (died 1666), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
  • Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet (died 1643), Welsh politician and poet
  • Jan Vos (died 1667), Dutch playwright and poet