1617 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- James I of England creates Poet Laureate position for Ben Jonson
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- John Davies, published anonymously, Wits Bedlam, epigrams
- Leonard Digges, The Rape of Proserpine, translated from the Latin of Claudius Claudianus' De raptu Proserpinae
- William Drummond, published anonymously, Forth Feasting, written on the occasion of James I's visit to Scotland
Other
- Martin Opitz Aristarchus, German poet and writer in Latin, in this book championing the purity of the German language
- Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, A la solitude,, an ode France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 4 - Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English Cavalier soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet
- September 25 - Henry Birkhead, English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry
- December 9 - Richard Lovelace, English Cavalier poet
- Peter Folger, English-born poet, Nantucket settler, and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
- Pierre Petit, French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- August 8 - Tarquinia Molza, Italian singer and poet
- Giovanni Botero, Italian political theorist, priest, poet, and diplomat
- Keshavdas, Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet
- Riccardo Luisini, Italian, Latin-language poet
- Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, Irish
- François du Souhait, French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher