Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace, serving in the Bishops' Wars in Scotland, writes "To Lucasta, Going to the Warres" (published 1649)
Works published
- Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according to the The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
- Thomas Carew, Poems, including "Coelum Brittanicum" 1634
- Richard Flecknoe, The Affections of a Pious Soule, unto our Savior-Christ, prose and poetry
- Ben Jonson:
- Richard Mather and John Eliot, and Thomas Weld The Whole Booke of Psalmes Faithfully Translated into English Metre, commonly known as the Bay Psalm Book, English Colonial American work
- Francis Quarles, Enchyridion
- Nathaniel Richards, The Tragedy of Messallina, the Roman Emperesse
- John Tatham, The Fancies Theater
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Aphra Behn (died 1689), English woman playwright and poet
- Nozawa BonchŠ野沢 凡兆 (died 1714), Japanese haikai poet
- William Wycherley (died 1716), English playwright and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, (born 1567), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
- Thomas Carew (born 1595), English poet
- Robert Chester (born 1566), English
- John Day (born 1574), English poet and playwright
- Paul Fleming (born 1609), German
- John Ford (born 1586), English playwright and poet
- Daniel Naborowski (born 1573), Polish
- Richard Rowlands (born 1550), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (born 1595), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
See also
- Poetry
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature