1618 in poetry

• George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and DaysCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN|0-19-860634-6}}
• Sir John Harington, The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harrington (see also Epigrams Both Pleasant and Serious 1615)
• John Taylor, The Pennylesse Pilgrimage

• Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
• Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento{{cite book|first=Gero|last=von Wilpert|title=Sachwörterbuch der Literatur|publisher=A. Kröner|year=1959|page=81}}
• Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Rimas, lyrics, including translations of Horace, Martial and Ausonius, with a controversial preface which attracts much attention because of its strong opposition to the culteranismo of Luis de Góngora, Spain

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

• Late – Abraham Cowley (died 1667), English
• Wu Jiaji (died 1684), Chinese

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

• April 19 – Thomas Bastard (born 1566), English poet and clergyman
• July – John Davies of Hereford (born 1565), Anglo-Welsh poet
• August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (born 1585), Dutch poet and playwright
• September 28 – Josuah Sylvester (born 1563), English poet
• October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh (born c. 1554), English adventurer and author, executed
• December 6 – Jacques Davy Duperron (born 1556), French cardinal, politician and poet
• Also:
• Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Stanyhurst" (born 1547), Irish translator, poet, historian and alchemist
• Probable year – Bento Teixeira (born c. 1561), Portuguese poet

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