1617 in poetry

• James I of England creates Poet Laureate position for Ben Jonson

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• John Davies, published anonymously, Wits Bedlam, epigrams{{cite book| last = Cox| first = Michael| title = The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature| year = 2004| isbn = 978-0-19-860634-5| url-access = registration| url = https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm}}
• Leonard Digges, The Rape of Proserpine, translated from the Latin of Claudius Claudianus' De raptu Proserpinae
• William Drummond, published anonymously, Forth Feasting, written on the occasion of James I's visit to Scotland

• Martin Opitz Aristarchus, German poet and writer in Latin, in this book championing the purity of the German languageMagnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, {{ISBN|0-550-16040-X}}
• Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, A la solitude, ("Solitude"), an ode (untranslated text in French) France

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

• April 4 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (died 1681), English Cavalier soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet
• September 25 (bapt.) – Henry Birkhead (died 1696), English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry
• December 9 – Richard Lovelace (died 1657), English Cavalier poet
• Peter Folger (died 1690), English-born poet, Nantucket settler, and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
• Pierre Petit (died 1687), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer

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

• August 8 – Tarquinia Molza (born 1542), Italian singer and poet
• Giovanni Botero (born 1544), Italian political theorist, priest, poet, and diplomat
• Keshavdas (born 1555), Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet
• Riccardo Luisini (born 1535), Italian, Latin-language poetWeb page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.
• Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (born 1567), Irish
• François du Souhait (born between 1570 and 1580), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher

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