1670 in poetry

Events

Works published

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

  Other

• Francisco de Quevedo, Las tres Musas últimas castellanas, posthumous, edited by the author's nephew, Pedro Alderete

  Births

• January 2 - Thomas Yalden, English poet, translator and clergyman
• January 24 - William Congreve, English playwright and poet
• November 15 - Bernard Mandeville, English philosopher, political economist, poet and satirist
• Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or 1688, Indian poet of Oriya Literature awarded the title Kavi-Samrata - "The Emperor of the Poets"
• Approximate date - Aogán Ó Rathaille, Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem

  Deaths

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