This article covers 1628 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law
- Phineas Fletcher, Brittain's Ida, published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger
- Robert Gomersall, The Levites Revenge
- Robert Hayman, Qvodlibets ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland
- Thomas May, translator, Virgil's Georgicks Englished
- Henry Reynolds, Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht
- George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past (see also Haleluiah 1641)
Other
- Luis de Góngora, a calf-bound, de luxe, three-volume edition of the author's works, authorized and compiled in collaboration with Antonio Chacón y Ponce de León in 1620, considered to be the most authoritative version of Gongora's works. The "publication" here was the book's presentation to the Conde-Duque de Olivares
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February – Christopher Brooke, English poet, lawyer and politician
- February 3 – Simon Goulart (born 1543) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet
- February 5 (bur.) – Christopher Middleton, (born c. 1560), English poet and translator
- August 1 – Juraj BarakoviÃÂ (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
- September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
- October 16 РFran̤ois de Malherbe (born 1555), French
See also
Notes