Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Richard Brathwaite, The Fatall Nuptiall; or, Mournefull Marriage, anonymously published
Wye Saltonstall, Ovids Heroicall Epistles, translated from the Latin of Ovid's Epistolae heriodum
Longinus, On the Sublime, an edition (not in English) by Gerard Langbaine at Oxford; a widely known edition; Ancient Greek criticisml; twice reprinted before 1551 (see John Hall's translation, the first into English, 1652; and Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux's influential translation into French in 1674)
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 1 – Jacques Cassagne (died 1679), French clergyman, poet and moralist
April 7 – Gregório de Matos, (died 1696), Brazilian Baroque poet
November 1 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux (died 1711), French poet and critic
Also:
Jean de Montigny (died 1671), French poet and philosopher
Thomas Traherne, born this year or in 1637 (died 1674), English poet and religious writer
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 19 – Daniel Schwenter (born 1585), German Orientalist, mathematician, inventor, poet and librarian
August 25 – Bhai Gurdas (born 1551), Punjabi Sikh scholar, poet and scribe of the Adi Granth
