1672 in literature
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[edit] Events
[edit] New books
- Richard Cumberland - De legibus naturae (On natural laws)
- Nathaniel Hodges - Loimologia
- John Milton - Art of Logic
[edit] New drama
- John Dryden - Marriage a la Mode
- Esprit Fléchier - Funeral sermon for Madame de Montausier
- Molière - Les femmes savantes
- Jean Racine - Bajazet
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham - The Rehearsal (first published)
[edit] Births
- January 18 - Antoine Houdar de la Motte (died 1731)
- May 1 - Joseph Addison (died 1719)
- August 2 - Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (died 1733)
[edit] Deaths
- September 12 - Tanneguy Lefebvre (born 1615)
- September 16 - Anne Bradstreet, first American female author to be published (born c.1612)
- December 7 - Richard Bellingham, later a character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter (born 1592)
