1658 in poetry

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Events

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Works published

• Nicholas Billingsley, Kosmobrephia; or, The Infancy of the World, mostly poetry^[1]
• Richard Brathwaite, The Honest Ghost; or, A Voice from the Vault, published anonymously, mostly poetry^[1]
• Sir Aston Cockayne, Small Poems of Divers Sorts (see also Poems 1662)^[1]
• 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)^[1]
• Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules, the first hexametrical poem in Swedish
• Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin, translators, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid^[1]

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

Notes