1657 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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In literature 1654 1655 1656 1657 1658 1659 1660
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Events

Works published

• Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-Martyrologia[1]
• Henry Bold, Wit a Sporting in a Pleasant Grove of New Fancies[1]
• William Davenant, Poems on Several Occasions
• Henry King, Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets, published anonymously and in an unauthorized edition[1]
• Joshua Poole, English Parnassus, an early handbook on poetry, with a preface signed "J. D.", apparently John Dryden[2]

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:

• 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

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 59, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")