1673 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Sir William Davenant, The Works of Sr William D'Avenant, prose and poetry
• John Milton, Poems, &. Upon Several Occasions, second edition, revised and expanded, of Poems 1646

  Births

• Probable date - John Oldmixon, English historian, pamphleteer, poet and critic
• Latest likely date - Pierre des Maizeaux, French writer and poet

  Deaths

• February 17 - Molière, French playwright, poet and actor
• March 15 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet
• May 4 - Richard Braithwait, English
• May 9 - Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux, French
• May 19 - Ingen, Chinese Linji Chan Buddhist monk, poet and calligrapher
• November 16 - Katarina Zrinska, Croatian noblewoman and poet
• December 15 - Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English noblewoman, poet and writer
• Alaol, Bengali poet
• Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet