1670 in poetry
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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 â Thomas Yalden (died 1736), English poet, translator and clergyman
- January 24 â William Congreve (died 1729), English playwright and poet
- November 15 â 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 â Aogán à Rathaille (died 1726), Irish poet, creator of the Aisling poem
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 21 â Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (born 1589), French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française
- March 22 â Petru Fudduni (born 1600), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
- March 31 â Jacob Westerbaen (born 1599), Dutch poet
- Cheng Zhengkui (born 1604), Chinese landscape painter and poet
