1658 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
... 1648 1649 1650 1651 1652 1653 1654 ... 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661 ... 1662 1663 1664 1665 1666 1667 1668 ...
In literature 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660 1661
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

• Nicholas Billingsley, Kosmobrephia; or, The Infancy of the World, mostly poetry
• Richard Brathwaite, The Honest Ghost; or, A Voice from the Vault, published anonymously, mostly poetry
• Sir Aston Cokayne, Small Poems of Divers Sorts (see also Poems 1662)
• Henry Lawes, Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, verse and music (see also Ayres and Dialogues 1653, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues 1655)
• Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules, the first hexametrical poem in Swedish
• Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin, translators, The Passion of Dido for Aneas, translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid

Births

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

• Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (died 1735), English

Deaths

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

• Gabriel Bocángel (born 1603), Spanish playwright and poet
• John Cleveland (born 1613), English
• Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (born 1607), German poet and translator
• Benjamin Rudyerd (born 1572), English politician and poet
• Ivan Bunić Vučić (born 1591), Ragusan, Croatian-language poet

See also

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