• Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française^[1]

• Anonymous, Westminster-Drollery; or, A Choice Collection of the Newest Songs & Poems Both at Court & Theaters (second part published in 1672)^[2]
• John Milton, Paradise Regain'd: A poem [...] To which is added Samson Agonistes, published in May (Samson Agonistes published separately in 1681)^[2]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau (died 1741), French poet and epigrammatist
• September 7 – Antoine Danchet (died 1748), French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet
• September 28 – Sarah Dixon (died 1765), English poet
• November 6 – Colley Cibber (died 1757), English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 30 – Fran Krsto Frankopan (born 1643), Croatian poet and politician (executed)
• September 28 – Jean de Montigny (born 1636), French philosophic writer and poet
• Pierre Le Moyne (born 1602), French Jesuit poet
• Sokuhi Nyoitsu (born 1616), Chinese Buddhist monk, poet and calligrapher
• Yun Seon-do (born 1587), Korean poet and government official

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