1618 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days
 * 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

Other

 * Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
 * Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento
 * 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

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Late – Abraham Cowley (died 1667), English
 * Wu Jiaji (died 1684), Chinese

Deaths
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