1618 in poetry explained

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

Works published

Great Britain

• George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days^[1]
• Sir John Harington, The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harrington (see also Epigrams Both Pleasant and Serious 1615)^[1]
• John Taylor, The Pennylesse Pilgrimage

Other

• Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
• Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento^[2]
• 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

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

• Late  - Abraham Cowley (died 1667), English
• Wu Jiaji (died 1684), Chinese

Deaths

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

• April 19  - Thomas Bastard (born 1566), English poet and clergyman
• July  - John Davies of Hereford (born 1565), Anglo-Welsh poet
• August 23  - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (born 1585), Dutch poet and playwright
• September 28  - Josuah Sylvester (born 1563), English poet
• October 29  - Sir Walter Ralegh (born c. 1554), English adventurer and author, executed
• December 6  - Jacques Davy Duperron (born 1556), French cardinal, politician and poet
• Also:
  • Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Stanyhurst" (born 1547), Irish translator, poet, historian and alchemist
  • Probable year  - Bento Teixeira (born c. 1561), Portuguese poet

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. Book: von Wilpert, Gero. Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. A. Kröner. 1959. 81.