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

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• William Davenant, Ieffereidos
• John Donne, A Help to Memory and Discourse, including The Broken Heart and part of "Song" ("Go and catch a falling star ...")^[1]
• Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium^[2]
• Thomas May, A Continuation of Lucan's Historicall Poem Till the Death of Julius Caesar (see also Lucan's Pharsalia 1626, 1627)^[2]
• Diana Primrose, A Chaine of Pearle; or a memoriall of the peerless graces, and heroick vertues of Queene Elizabeth^[2]
• Francis Quarles, Divine Poems^[2]
• Thomas Randolph, Aristippus; or, The Joviall Philosopher, published anonymously^[2]
• Nathanael Richards, The Celestiall Publican^[2]
• Alexander Ross, Three Decads of Divine Meditations^[2]
• John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet^[2]

• José Pellicer de Salas y Tovar, Complete Readings of the Works by Luis de Góngora y Argote, criticism; Spain

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

• January 17 – Sultan Bahu (died 1691), Muslim Sufi saint and poet
• April 28 – Charles Cotton (died 1687), English poet and writer
• Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (died 1708), Puerto Rico's first native born poet

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

• March – Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson" (born 1570), English-born writer of madrigals
• April 29 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (born 1552), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein died (born 1586), German
• Also:
  • Pedro Bucaneg (born 1592), blind Filipino poet, "Father of Ilokano literature"
  • Gian Domenico Cancianini (born 1547), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]
  • Samuel Rowlands, died about this year (born c. 1570), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist^[2]
  • Jacob Uziel (born unknown), Spanish physician and poet

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature