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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained
Works published
Great Britain
- John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions,[1] published anonymously[2]
- John Dryden:
- The Hind and the Panther, published anonymously (see also the work by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, below)[2]
- A Song for St. Cecilia's Day[2]
- Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes[2]
- John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry[2]
- Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)[2]
- Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages[2]
Other
- John Cotton II, Poem Occasioned by the Death of [...] John Alden, English Colonial American (Massachusetts)[3]
- Benjamin Harris, compiler, The New England Primer, English Colonial American[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 13 – Paolo Rolli (died 1765), Italian librettist, poet and translator
- c. August 26 – Henry Carey (suicide 1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
- Mary Chandler (died 1745), English poet and milliner
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 28 – Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
- April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
- April 28 – Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
- May 6 – Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet
- September 1 – Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
- October 21 – Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
- Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
See also
Notes
- ↑ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce (1971). Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830). Franklin, Burt. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5. Retrieved 2010-02-13 – via Google Books.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- 1 2 Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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