1645 in poetry

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Great Britain

 * Francis Quarles, Solomon's Recantation, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased
 * Sir Robert Stapylton, translator, Erotopagnion, translated from the original Latin of the Musaeus
 * Edmund Waller, Poems
 * George Wither, Vox Pacifica: A Voice Tending to the Pacification of God's Wrath

Other

 * Adrián de Alesio, El Angélico ("The Angel"), dedicated to Saint Thomas Aquinas
 * Sheikh Muhammad, Yoga-samgrama

Works incorrectly dated this year

 * John Milton, Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin, published 1646, according to The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, notwithstanding the book's title page

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 11 – Juan del Valle y Caviedes (died 1697), Spanish-born Peruvian poet and author

Deaths
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 * March 10 – William Strode (born c.1602), English poet
 * April 3 (bur.) – Emilia Lanier, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (born 1569), English
 * July 7 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (born 1569), German officer and poet
 * July 13 – Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
 * August 28 – Hugo Grotius (born 1583), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet
 * August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini (born 1566), Italian
 * September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo (born 1580), Spanish nobleman, politician and Golden Age poet
 * William Browne (born 1590), English pastoral poet
 * Feng Menglong (born 1574), Chinese writer and poet