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| 1609 |
| | | Shakespeare's sonnets, written ten years previously, are published | |
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| 1633 |
| | | George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously | |
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| 1637 |
| | | John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King | |
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| 1650 |
| | | The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America | |
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| 1667 |
| | | Paradise Lost is published, earning its author John Milton just £10 | |
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| 1712 |
| | | Alexander Pope's Rape of the Lock introduces a delicate vein of mock-heroic in English poetry | |
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| 1751 |
| | | English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard | |
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| 1762 |
| | | Fingal, supposedly by the medieval poet Ossian, is a forgery in the spirit of the times by James MacPherson | |
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| 1778 |
| | | Francis Hopkinson's popular ballad The Battle of the Kegs describes an ingenious American threat to the British navy | |
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| 1781 |
| | | US poet Philip Freneau describes in The British Prison Ship the horrors of his experiences as a prisoner | |
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