1607 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works

 * Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works
 * John Davies, Yehovah Summa Totalis; or, All in All, and, the Same for Ever; or, An Addition to Mirum in Modum
 * Michael Drayton, The Legend of Great Cromwel
 * Thomas Ford, Musicke of sundrie kindes
 * Sir John Harington, translator (from the Latin of Johannes de Mediolano's Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum), The Englishmans Doctor; or, The Schole of Salerne
 * Robert Jones, The First Set of Madrigals (verse and music)
 * Gervase Markham, Rodomonths Infernall; or, The Divell Conquered, translated from Philippe Desportes' French translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso
 * Samuel Rowlands:
 * Democritus; or, Doctor Merry-man his Medicines, Against Melancholy Humors
 * Diogines Lanthorne

Births

 * March 12 – Paul Gerhardt (died 1676), German hymn writer
 * March 8 – Johann von Rist (died 1667), German
 * April 13 (bapt.) – Robert Chamberlain (died 1660), English poet and dramatist
 * November 1 – Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (died 1658), German poet and translator
 * November 5 – Anna Maria van Schurman (died 1678), Dutch
 * date unknown
 * Alaol (died 1673), Bengali
 * Václav František Kocmánek (died 1679), Czech poet, author and historian
 * 1607/1608: Salabega (died unknown), Oriyan religious poet

Deaths

 * May – Sir Edward Dyer (born 1543), English courtier and poet
 * c. May – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, poet and translator
 * June – Thomas Newton (born c. 1542), English physician, clergyman, poet, author and translator
 * July 7 – Penelope Rich, Lady Rich (born 1563), English noblewoman, inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney's "Stella"
 * September 18 – Abraham Fleming (born c. 1552), English poet, translator and antiquarian
 * Also:
 * Henry Chettle, death year uncertain (born c. 1560), English playwright, writer and poet
 * Dinko Ranjina (born 1536), Croatian