1618 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days
- Sir John Harington, The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harrington
- John Taylor, The Pennylesse Pilgrimage
Other
- Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
- Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento
- Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Rimas, lyrics, including translations of Horace, Martial and Ausonius, with a controversial preface which attracts much attention because of its strong opposition to the culteranismo of Luis de Góngora, Spain
Births
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- April 19 - Thomas Bastard, English poet and clergyman
- July - John Davies of Hereford, Anglo-Welsh poet
- August 23 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright
- September 28 - Josuah Sylvester, English poet
- October 29 - Sir Walter Ralegh, English adventurer and author, executed
- December 6 - Jacques Davy Duperron, French cardinal, politician and poet
- Also:
- * Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Stanyhurst", Irish translator, poet, historian and alchemist
- * Probable year - Bento Teixeira, Portuguese poet
