1680 in poetry

Events

• The Irish poem-book Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe is transcribed by Ruairí Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill.
• Possible approximate date of composition of the Thai poem Kamsuan Samut, attributed to Si Prat.

  Works published

• Wentworth Dillon, translator, Horace's Art of Poetry, translation from the Latin of Horace's Ars poetica, including an essay by Edmund Waller
• John Dryden and others, translators, Ovid's Epistles
• Thomas Otway, The Poet's Complaint of his Muse; or, A Satyr Against
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable The E. of R—, published in London, although the book states it was published in "Antwerpen" The book includes "The Disappointment" by Aphra Behn.

  Births

• September 22 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet
• Mohammed Awzal, Moroccan Berber religious poet
• Bulleh Shah, Punjabi Sufi poet, humanist and philosopher

  Deaths

• July 26 - John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, English poet, courtier and rake
• August 25 - Symeon of Polotsk, Belarusian-Russian Baroque poet, dramatist, churchman and enlightener
• September 25 - Samuel Butler, English satirical poet
• October 15 - Bedřich Bridel, Czech Baroque writer, poet and missionary
• November - Carr Scrope, English versifier and courtier
• Approximate date
• * François Colletet, French poet
• * Karacaoğlan, Turkish folk poet and ashik