1657 in poetry

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

Works published

 * Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-Martyrologia
 * Henry Bold, Wit a Sporting in a Pleasant Grove of New Fancies
 * William Davenant, Poems on Several Occasions
 * Henry King, Poems, Elegies, Paradoxes, and Sonnets, published anonymously and in an unauthorized edition
 * Joshua Poole, English Parnassus, an early handbook on poetry, with a preface signed "J. D.", apparently John Dryden

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Arai Hakuseki (died 1725), Japanese poet, writer and politician
 * John Norris (died 1712), English theologian, philosopher and poet
 * Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler (died 1706), German poet
 * Ebba Maria De la Gardie (died 1697), Swedish poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April ? – Richard Lovelace (born 1617), English Cavalier poet
 * Johann George Moeresius (born 1598), Polish poet and rector