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Events

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

Works published

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

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " 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

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " 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

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. France, Peter, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, p 234, New York: Oxford University Press (1995) ISBN 0-19-866125-8
2. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6

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