1663 in poetry

Events

• February 24 - John Milton marries his third wife, Elizabeth Minshull, 31 years his junior, at St Mary Aldermary in the City of London.
• Robert Herrick begins publishing his Poor Robin's Almanack

  Works published

• Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First Part: Written in the time of the late wars, published anonymously
• Abraham Cowley, Verses, Lately Written Upon Several Occasions
• Sir William Davenant, Poem, to the King's Most Sacred Majesty
• John Dryden, To The Lady Castlemaine, Upon Her Incouraging His First Play, a poem
• Thomas Jordan, A Royal Arbor of Loyal Poesie
• Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic, Sielanki nowe ruskie

  Births

• February 25 - Peter Anthony Motteux, born Pierre Antoine Motteux, French-born English playwright, translator, editor, author and poet
• August 20 - Amalia Königsmarck, Swedish noble and dilettante
• October 9 - Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni, Italian critic and poet
• William King, English writer
• George Stepney, English diplomat and poet

  Deaths

• Bihari Lal, Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī
• Approximate date - Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish poet