1657 in poetry
This article covers 1657 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
- Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-Martyrologia
- Henry Bold, Wit a Sporting in a Pleasant Grove of New Fancies
- William Davenant, Poems on Several Occasions
- Henry King, Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets, published anonymously and in an unauthorized edition
- Joshua Poole, English Parnassus, an early handbook on poetry, with a preface signed "J. D.", apparently John Dryden
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Arai Hakuseki, Japanese poet, writer and politician
- John Norris, English theologian, philosopher and poet
- Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler, German poet
- Ebba Maria De la Gardie, Swedish poet