1638 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- May - English poet John Milton sets out for a tour of the European continent. He spends the summer in Florence.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Henry Adamson, Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Edinburgh, noted for giving a general description of Perth in the 17th century; published with the encouragement of Adamson's friend, William Drummond
- Charles Aleyn, The History of Henry the Seventh
- Richard Brathwaite, writing under the pen name "Corymboeus", Barnabees Journall, under the Names of Mirtilus & Faustulus Shadowed, Latin and English verse on facing pages
- Robert Chamberlain, Nocturnall Lucubrations; or, Meditations Divine and Morall
- William Davenant, Madagascar; with Other PoemsJusta Edouardo King Naufrago, by various authors; a collection of elegies dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a college friend of John Milton's at Cambridge who had been drowned in August 1637 when his ship sank in the Irish Sea off the coast of Wales; including Milton's "Lycidas"
- Thomas Nabbes, The Springs of Glorie, verse drama
- Francis Quarles, Hieroglyphikes of the Life of Man
- Thomas Randolph, ''Poems with the Muses Looking-lasse: and Amyntas''
Other
- Friedrich von Logau, Erstes Hundert Teutscher Reimen-Sprüche, epigrams, Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 1 - Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières, French poet
- January 24 - Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier
- February 15 - Zeb-un-Nissa, Persian poet and Mughal princess
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 24 - Charles Fitzgeoffrey, English poet and clergyman
- February 25 - Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
- June 25 - Juan Pérez de Montalbán, Spanish priest, dramatist, poet and novelist
- August 27 - John Hoskins, English poet, classicist, judge and politician
- December 8 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian Baroque poet
- c. December? - John Day, English playwright and poet
- Daulat Qazi, Bengali poet