1657 in poetry

• 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]

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

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

• April ? – Richard Lovelace (born 1617), English Cavalier poet^[3]
• Johann George Moeresius (born 1598), Polish poet and rector

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature