1644 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published
 * Francis Quarles:
 * Barnabas and Boanerges: Or, wine and oyle for afflicted soules, Part 2 also published this year in an unauthorized edition as Barnabas and Boanerges; both parts published together under the title Judgement and Mercie for Afflicted Soules 1646
 * The Shepheards Oracle

Other

 * Johann Klaj and Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, Pegnesische Schäfergedicht

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Matsuo Bashō (died 1694), famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, especially Haiku
 * Isaac Chayyim Cantarini (died 1723), Italian poet, writer, physician, rabbi and preacher
 * Frances Norton, Lady Norton (died 1731), English poetry religious poet and prose writer

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Nicholas Bourbon (born 1574), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
 * Peter Hausted (born 1605), playwright, poet, preacher
 * Geoffrey Keating (born 1569), Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
 * Rhys Prichard (born 1579), Welsh language poet and a vicar
 * Francis Quarles (born 1592), English
 * George Sandys (born 1578), English traveller, colonist and poet, the seventh and youngest son of Church of England Archbishop Edwin Sandys
 * Luís Vélez de Guevara (born 1579), Spanish dramatist, poet, and novelist