— First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published (posthumously) this year

Had we but world enough, and time,

This coyness, Lady, were no crime

We would sit down and think which way

To walk and pass our long love's day.

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

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 24 (March 14 O.S.) – Georg Philipp Telemann (died 1767), German composer and poet
• Johann Ernst Hanxleden (died 1732), German poet and lexicographer
• Nedîm (died 1730), Ottoman poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (born 1600), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
• August 12 – Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (born 1617), English Royalist soldier, astrologer and poet
• October 7 – Nikolaes Heinsius (born 1620), Dutch poet and scholar
• December – Charles Cotin (born 1604), French abbé, philosopher and poet
• Magha 9, 1603 (Saka era) – Samarth Ramdas (born 1608), Marathi saint and religious poet

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