1671 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1671.

Events

 * February – Nell Gwyn retires from the stage and moves into a brick townhouse at 79 Pall Mall, London.
 * November 9 – The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre.
 * Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first prize given for poetry by the Académie française.
 * Philosophus Autodidactus, the first Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's 12th century tale Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, prepared by Edward Pococke before 1660, is published for the first time.

Prose

 * Edward Bagshaw (attributed) – The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell
 * Edward Burrough (died 1663) – The Memorable Works of a Son of Thunder and Consolation: Namely, that True Prophet, and Faithful Servant of God, and Sufferer for the Testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs...
 * Marie-Catherine de Villedieu – Les Amours des Grands Hommes
 * Johann Ferdinand Hertodt – Crocologia
 * John Josselyn – New England's Rarities, discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that Country (London)
 * Gottfried Leibniz – Hypothesis Physica Nova (`New Physical Hypothesis')
 * Pierre Martin de La Martinière – Voyage des pays septentrionaux (A New Voyage to the North)
 * Arnoldus Montanus – De nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving van America (The Unknown New World or Description of the Continent America)
 * Isaac Newton – Method of Fluxions
 * Jane Sharp – The Midwives Book: or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered

Children

 * James Janeway – A Token for Children (two parts)

Drama

 * Aphra Behn – The Amorous Prince (adapted from Robert Davenport's The City Nightcap)
 * Pedro Calderon de la Barca – El santo rey don Fernando
 * John Caryll – Sir Solomon Single
 * Pierre Corneille – Tite et Bérénice
 * John Corye – The Generous Enemies
 * John Crowne
 * Charles VIII of France
 * Juliana
 * John Dryden – The Assignation, or Love in a Nunnery
 * Edward Howard – The Six Days' Adventure
 * Elizabeth Polwheele – The Frolicks
 * Samuel Pordage – Herod and Mariamne
 * Edward Ravenscroft – Mamamouchi
 * Edward Revet – The Town Shifts
 * Elkanah Settle – Cambyses
 * George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham & others – The Rehearsal
 * William Wycherley – Love in a Wood

Poetry

 * John Milton – Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes

Births

 * April 6 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French dramatist and poet (died 1741)
 * September 7 – Antoine Danchet, French dramatist and poet (died 1748)
 * November 6 – Colley Cibber, English playwright and Poet Laureate (died 1757)
 * Unknown date – Gustaf Adlerfelt, Swedish historian (died 1709)
 * Unknown date, possibly 1672 – Sarah Dixon, English poet (died 1765)

Deaths

 * January 1 – Hardouin de Péréfixe de Beaumont, French historian and cleric (born 1606)
 * January 22 – Odorico Raynaldi, Italian historian (born 1595)
 * February 22 – Adam Olearius, German librarian and scholar (born 1603)
 * July 14 – Méric Casaubon, Swiss-born English classicist (born 1599)
 * September 28 – Jean de Montigny, French philosopher and poet (born 1636)
 * December 28 – Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classicist (born 1611)