1630 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * William Davenant, Ieffereidos
 * John Donne, A Help to Memory and Discourse, including The Broken Heart and part of "Song" ("Go and catch a falling star ...")
 * Michael Drayton, The Muses Elizium
 * Thomas May, A Continuation of Lucan's Historicall Poem Till the Death of Julius Caesar (see also Lucan's Pharsalia 1626, 1627)
 * Diana Primrose, 
 * Francis Quarles, Divine Poems
 * Thomas Randolph, Aristippus; or, The Joviall Philosopher, published anonymously
 * Nathanael Richards, The Celestiall Publican
 * Alexander Ross, Three Decads of Divine Meditations
 * John Taylor, All the Workes of John Taylor the Water-Poet

Other

 * José Pellicer de Salas y Tovar, Complete Readings of the Works by Luis de Góngora y Argote, criticism; Spain

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 17 – Sultan Bahu (died 1691), Muslim Sufi saint and poet
 * April 28 – Charles Cotton (died 1687), English poet and writer
 * Francisco Ayerra de Santa María (died 1708), Puerto Rico's first native born poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March – Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson" (born 1570), English-born writer of madrigals
 * April 29 – Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (born 1552), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
 * November 19 – Johann Hermann Schein died (born 1586), German
 * Also:
 * Pedro Bucaneg (born 1592), blind Filipino poet, "Father of Ilokano literature"
 * Gian Domenico Cancianini (born 1547), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Samuel Rowlands, died about this year (born c. 1570), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
 * Jacob Uziel (born unknown), Spanish physician and poet