1669 in poetry

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Sir John Denham, Cato Major of Old Age, a verse paraphrase of Cicero's De senectute
• Richard Flecknoe, Epigrams of All Sorts

  Other

• René Rapin, Observations sur les poèmes d'Homère et de Virgile '', critical essay, Paris; France

  Births

• February 3 - Kada no Azumamaro, Japanese early Edo period poet and philologist

  Deaths

• March 19 - John Denham, English poet and courtier, buried in Westminster Abbey
• September 3 - Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish
• September 30 - Henry King, English poet and bishop
• October 8 - Jane Cavendish, English poet and playwright