1670 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Other]]

• 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 ("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
• 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"
• 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

Notes

References

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