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Events
February 27 – A few days before his death from consumption at his rectory in Bemerton (near Salisbury in England), George Herbert calls for a lute so that he can sing religious songs.[1] He has sent his poems, none of which have been published in his lifetime, to Nicholas Ferrar of the Little Gidding community and they are issued later in the year.
George Herbert, The Temple: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, a posthumous collection of all Herbert's poems, including "Easter Wings" (shown at right); edited by Nicholas Ferrar[2][3]
Luis de Góngora y Argote, edited by Don Gonzalo de Hoces y Cordoba, Todas las obras de don Louis de Gongora en varios poemas, a posthumous edition of Gongora's works often used as a source for later publications in the following centuries; Spain[5]
^ abFerguson, Margaret, et al., editors, The Noroton Anthology of Poetry, p 331, fourth edition, New York: W.W. Norton & Company (1996), ISBN0-393-96820-0
^Donne, John, The Complete English Poems, Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", p 24, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010