This article covers 1657 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works published Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-MartyrologiaCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 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 DrydenMark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 59, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")

Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Arai Hakuseki (died 1725), Japanese poet, writer and politician John Norris (died 1712), English theologian, philosopher and poet Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (died 1706), German poet Ebba Maria De la Gardie (died 1697), Swedish poet

Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: April ? – Richard Lovelace (born 1617), English Cavalier poet Johann George Moeresius (born 1598), Polish poet and rector

See also

Poetry 17th century in poetry 17th century in literature

Notes