1670 in poetry

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

Works published

Other

• Sir Richard Fanshawe, translated, Querer por solo querer: To love ony for love sake, translated from Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza^[1]
• Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke, The Remains of Sir Fulk Grevill Lord Brooke^[1]
• Michael Wigglesworth, Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial American^[2]

Other

• Francisco de Quevedo, Las tres Musas últimas castellanas ("The last three Castilian Muses"), posthumous, edited by the author's nephew, Pedro Alderete

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 2 – Thomas Yalden (died 1736), English poet, translator and clergyman
• January 24 – William Congreve (died 1729), English playwright and poet
• November 15 – Bernard Mandeville (died 1733), English philosopher, political economist, poet and satirist
• Mohammed Awzal (died 1748), Moroccan Berber religious poet
• Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or 1688 (died 1740), Indian poet of Oriya Literature awarded the title Kavi-Samrata - "The Emperor of the Poets"
• Sarah Fyge Egerton (died 1723), English poet
• Approximate date – Aogán Ó Rathaille (died 1726), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 21 – Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (born 1589), French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française
• March 22 – Petru Fudduni (born 1600), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
• March 31 – Jacob Westerbaen (born 1599), Dutch poet
• Cheng Zhengkui (born 1604), Chinese landscape painter and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press