Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth-field: With a taste of the variety of other poems left by Sir John Beaumont, posthumously published by his son and namesake
• George Chapman, translator, A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero, Part 2 is a verse translation of Juvenal's Book 1, Satire 5^[1]
• Thomas Farnaby, editor, Florilegium Epigrammatum graecorum eorumque Latino versu a varus redditorum (later editions in 1650, 1671)^[2]
• Sir Francis Hubert, The Historie of Edward the Second Surnamed Carnarvan, the authorized edition; unauthorized edition published in 1628^[1]
• Thomas May, translation, Selected Epigrams of Martial^[1]
• Francis Quarles, Argalus and Parthenia^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Katherine Austen (died 1683), English diarist and poet
• Laurens Bake (died 1702), Dutch poet
• Zhu Yizun (died 1709), Chinese poet
• 12 December – Symeon of Polotsk (died 1680), Baroque Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 18 August – Vendela Skytte (born 1608), Swedish noblewoman, salon hostess, writer and poet
• November – Robert Hayman (born 1575), English poet and governor of Newfoundland
• 5 May – Szymon Szymonowic (born 1558), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
• date not known – Gerolamo Aleandro (born 1574), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature