1628 in poetry
This article covers 1628 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law
- Phineas Fletcher, Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger
- Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge
- Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets, the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
- Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished
- Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht
- George Wither, ''Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past''
Other
- Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 30 - George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman and poet
- Bahinabai, Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
- François Colletet, French
- Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February - Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
- February 3 - Simon Goulart Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet
- February 5 - Christopher Middleton,, English poet and translator
- August 1 - Juraj Baraković, Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
- September 30 - Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet, dramatist and statesman
- October 16 - François de Malherbe, French