1628 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * 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:
 * January 30 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (died 1687), English statesman and poet
 * Bahinabai (died 1700), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
 * François Colletet (died 1680), French
 * Zbigniew Morsztyn (died 1689), Polish poet

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 Baraković (born 1548), Croatian Renaissance poet from Zadar
 * September 30 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (born 1554), English poet, dramatist and statesman
 * October 16 – François de Malherbe (born 1555), French