1658 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, Kosmobrephia; or, The Infancy of the World, mostly poetry
 * Richard Brathwaite, The Honest Ghost; or, A Voice from the Vault, published anonymously, mostly poetry
 * Sir Aston Cockayne, Small Poems of Divers Sorts (see also Poems 1662)
 * Henry Lawes, Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, verse and music (see also Ayres and Dialogues 1653, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues 1655)
 * Georg Stiernhielm, Hercules, the first hexametrical poem in Swedish
 * Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin, translators, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Charles Mordaunt, 3rd Earl of Peterborough (died 1735), English

Deaths
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 * Gabriel Bocángel (born 1603), Spanish playwright and poet
 * John Cleveland (born 1613), English
 * Georg Philipp Harsdorffer (born 1607), German poet and translator
 * Benjamin Rudyerd (born 1572), English politician and poet
 * Ivan Bunić Vučić (born 1591), Ragusan, Croatian-language poet