1670 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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