Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Great Britain

• Henry Adamson, Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Edinburgh, noted for giving a general description of Perth in the 17th century; published with the encouragement of Adamson's friend, William Drummond
• Charles Aleyn, The History of Henry the Seventh^[1]
• Richard Brathwaite, writing under the pen name "Corymboeus", Barnabees Journall, under the Names of Mirtilus & Faustulus Shadowed, Latin and English verse on facing pages^[1]
• Robert Chamberlain, Nocturnall Lucubrations; or, Meditations Divine and Morall^[1]
• William Davenant, Madagascar; with Other Poems^[1]
• Justa Edouardo King Naufrago, by various authors; a collection of elegies dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a college friend of John Milton's at Cambridge who had been drowned in August 1637 when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales; including Milton's "Lycidas"
• Thomas Nabbes, The Springs of Glorie, verse drama^[1]
• Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man^[1]
• Thomas Randolph, Poems with the Muses Looking-lasse: and Amyntas^[1]

Other

• Friedrich von Logau, Erstes Hundert Teutscher Reimen-Spr che, epigrams, Germany^[2]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (died 1706), English poet and courtier

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Sir Robert Aytoun (born 1570), Scottish poet
• Charles Fitzgeoffrey (born 1576), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
• Ivan Gunduli (born 1589), Croatian
• John Hoskins (born 1566), English
• Juan P rez de Montalb n (born 1602), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
• Daulat Qazi (born 1600), medieval Bengali poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature

Notes