This article covers 1674 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
— First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published (posthumously) this year
Works published
- Richard Baxter, Poetical Fragments
- Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake
- John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, published anonymously; a satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (see also The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel as well as other poetic responses 1682)
- Thomas D'Urfey, The Progress of Honesty; or, A View of a Court and City (see also The Malcontent 1684)
- Andrew Marvell (died 1678), Miscellaneous Poems, including "To His Coy Mistress"
- John Oldham, published anonymously
- Satyrs upon the Jesuits (the first "Satyr Upon the Jesuits" had been published in 1679 in the form of a broadside under the title Garnets Ghost)
- Some New Pieces Never Before Publisht
Other
Births
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Deaths
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 РCharles Cotin (born 1604), French abb̩, philosopher and poet
- Magha 9, 1603 (Saka era) – Samarth Ramdas (born 1608), Marathi saint and religious poet
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