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

• November 22 – English poet John Donne is installed as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London.

• John Ashmore, translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments Annexed^[1]
• Richard Brathwaite:
  • Natures Embassie; or, The Wilde-Mans Measures^[1]
  • Times Curtaine Drawne; or, The Anatomie of Vanitie^[1]
• Ralph Crane, The Workes of Mercy, Both Corporeal and Spiritual
• Francis Quarles, Hadassa; or, The History of Queene Ester^[1]
• George Sandys, The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis, published anonymously (see also Ovid's Metamorphosis 1626)^[1]
• Rachel Speght, Mortalities Memorandum: With a dreame prefixed, imaginarie in manner, reall in matter^[1]
• John Taylor:
  • The Praise, Antiquity, and Commodity, of Beggery, Beggers and Begging^[1]
  • Superbiae Flagellum; or, The Whip of Pride^[1]
• George Wither, The Songs of the Old Testament, verses and music^[1]
• Lady Mary Wroth (Sir Philip Sidney's niece), Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, sonnet sequence written since 1613 partially included in The Countess of Montgomery's Urania^[1]

• Théophile de Viau, Œuvres poétiques, France

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

• March 31 – Andrew Marvell (died 1678), English metaphysical poet and parliamentarian
• April 17 – Henry Vaughan (died 1695), Welsh poet
• July 8 – Jean de La Fontaine (died 1695), French poet and fable writer
• July 24 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (died 1693), Polish poet and member of the noble class Szlachta
• Rupa Bhavani (died 1721), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
• Jane Cavendish (died 1669), English poet and playwright
• Wacław Potocki (died 1696), Polish nobleman (Szlachta), moralist, poet and writer

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

• March 28 – Ottavio Rinuccini (born 1562), Italian poet, courtier, and opera librettist
• August 3 – Guillaume du Vair (born 1556), French writer and poet
• August 15 – John Barclay (born 1582), Scottish satirist and poet
• September 25 – Mary Herbert (born 1561), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
• October 12 – Pierre Matthieu (born 1563), French playwright, poet and historian

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature