Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior") on which he visits Kisakata, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands.
Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate of England.
Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year
Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions
Robert Gould, Poems
Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year
Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 25 – Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
May 3 (bapt.) – William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
November 18 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (died 1752), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January – William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
April 16 – Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet
August 21 – William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic
December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
date unknown – Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer
