Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, An Antidote Against Melancholy, one of the most important and earliest collections of "drolleries"
Alexander Brome, Songs and Other Poems
John Bunyan, Profitable Meditations Fitted to Mans Different Condition, the author's first prison work and first published verse
John Dryden, To His Sacred Majesty, a Panegyrick on his Coronation, Charles II of England was crowned April 23 this year
John Evelyn, A Panegyric to Charles the Second
Edmund Waller, A Poem on St James's Park
George Wither, The Prisoners Plea
Anders Arrebo, Hexaemeron, poem describing the six days of Creation, written c. 1622, published posthumously
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April – Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, born Anne Kingsmill (died 1720), English poet
April 16 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax (died 1715), English poet and statesman
Johanna Eleonora De la Gardie (died 1708), German-born Swedish poet and noble
Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (died 1707), Japanese haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō
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William Cleland (died 1689), Scottish poet and soldier
Samuel Garth (died 1719), English physician and poet
John Tutchin (died 1707), English radical Whig controversialist, gadfly journalist and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 12 – August Buchner (born 1591), German poet and critic
October 2 – Barten Holyday (born 1593), English clergyman, author and poet
December 29 – Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant (born 1594), French poet
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez (born c. 1601), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
María de Zayas (born 1590), Spanish poet and playwright
