1676 in poetry

Great Britain • Thomas Hobbes, translator, ''Homer's Iliads in English: To which may be added Homer's Odysses'' (Hobbes's translation of the Odyssey was published in 1675) • Benjamin Tompson, New Englands Crisis. Or a Brief Narrative, of New-Englands Lamentable Estate at Present [...], reprinted for the most part in ''New-England's Tears for Her Present Miseries'', also published this year; English Colonial America • year uncertain – Corydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess, a broadside, London ==Births==

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • July 14 – Caspar Abel (died 1763), German theologian, historian and poet • December 30 – John Philips (died 1709), English poet ==Deaths==

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: • March 27 – Bernardino de Rebolledo (born 1597), Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat • May 27 – Paul Gerhardt (born 1607), German hymn writer • July 12 – Duchess Elisabeth Sophie of Mecklenburg (born 1613), German librettist, composer, impresario and (by marriage) Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg • July 27 – François Hédelin (born 1604), French abbé of Aubignac and Meymac, poet, playwright, scholar and drama theorist • September 4 – John Ogilby (born 1600), Scottish-born translator, impresario and cartographer • October 28 – Jean Desmarets (born 1595), French poet and playwright • December 18 – Edward Benlowes (born 1603), English poet, patron and scholar ==See also==