1629 in poetry

Works published

• Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth-field: With a taste of the variety of other poems left by Sir John Beaumont, posthumously published by his son and namesake
• George Chapman, translator, A Justification of a Strange Action of Nero, Part 2 is a verse translation of Juvenal's Book 1, Satire 5
• Thomas Farnaby, editor, Florilegium Epigrammatum graecorum eorumque Latino versu a varus redditorum
• Sir Francis Hubert, The Historie of Edward the Second Surnamed Carnarvan, the authorized edition; unauthorized edition published in 1628
• Thomas May, translation, Selected Epigrams of Martial
• Francis Quarles, Argalus and Parthenia

  Births

• Katherine Austen, English diarist and poet
• Laurens Bake, Dutch poet
• Zhu Yizun, Chinese poet
• December 12 - Symeon of Polotsk, Baroque Belarusian-Russian poet, dramatist, churchman, and enlightener

  Deaths

• August 18 - Vendela Skytte, Swedish noblewoman, salon hostess, writer and poet
• November - Robert Hayman, English poet and governor of Newfoundland
• May 5 - Szymon Szymonowic, Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
• date not known - Gerolamo Aleandro, Italian, Latin-language poet