1618 in poetry

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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
• Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Rimas, lyrics, including translations of Horace, Martial and Ausonius, with a controversial preface which attracted 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:

• Abraham Cowley (died 1667), English
• Richard Lovelace (died 1657), 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
• August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (born 1585), Dutch poet and playwright
• September 28 – Joshua Sylvester (born 1563), England
• October 29 – Sir Walter Raleigh, (born 1552)
• December 6 – Jacques Du Perron (born 1556), French
• Also:
  • Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Richard Stanyhurst" (born 1547), Irish alchemist, translator, poet and historian
  • John Davies of Hereford (born 1565), English

Notes

1. ^ ^{a b} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6