1671 in poetry

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
• John Milton, Paradise Regain'd: A poem To which is added Samson Agonistes, published in May

  Births

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

  Deaths

• April 30 - Fran Krsto Frankopan, Croatian poet and politician
• September 28 - Jean de Montigny, French philosophic writer and poet
• Pierre Le Moyne, French Jesuit poet
• Sokuhi Nyoitsu, Chinese Buddhist monk, poet and calligrapher
• Yun Seon-do, Korean poet and government official