1684 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...

 or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

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Events

  • April 15 – Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
    Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
    Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux was a French poet and critic.-Biography:Boileau was born in the rue de Jérusalem, in Paris, France. He was brought up to the law, but devoted to letters, associating himself with La Fontaine, Racine, and Molière...

    , a France
    French poetry
    French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...

     poet, critic and scholar, was admitted to the Académie française
    Académie française
    L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...

    , and then only by the king's wish

Works published

  • Aphra Behn
    Aphra Behn
    Aphra Behn was a prolific dramatist of the English Restoration and was one of the first English professional female writers. Her writing contributed to the amatory fiction genre of British literature.-Early life:...

    , Poems Upon Several Occasions
  • Samuel Butler
    Samuel Butler (poet)
    Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.-Biography:...

    , Hudibras
    Hudibras
    Hudibras is an English mock heroic narrative poem from the 17th century written by Samuel Butler.-Purpose:The work is a satirical polemic upon Roundheads, Puritans, Presbyterians and many of the other factions involved in the English Civil War...

    . In Three Parts
    , published anonymously (See also Hudibras, the First Part 1663
    1663 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Robert Herrick begins publishing his Poor Robin's Almanack-Works published:...

    , Hudibras. The Second Part 1664
    1664 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Henry Bold, Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique...

    , Hudibras. The First and Second Parts 1674
    1674 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:...

    , Hudibras. The Third and Last Part 1678
    1678 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anne Bradstreet, Several Poems Compiled with Great Variety of Wit and Learning, a reprint of The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, published in Boston, Massachusetts with significant...

    )
  • Thomas Creech
    Thomas Creech
    Thomas Creech was an English translator of classical works, and headmaster of Sherborne School. He translated Lucretius in verse , for which he received a Fellowship at Oxford, also Manilius, Horace, Theocritus, and other classics.-Life:He was born at Blandford Forum, Dorset...

    :
    • Translator, The Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin's Discourse of Pastorals Done into English, translated from Rene Rapin
      René Rapin
      René Rapin was a French Jesuit and writer.He was born at Tours and entered the Society of Jesus in 1639. He taught rhetoric, and wrote extensively both in verse and prose.-Works:...

      , Treatise de carmine pastorali
    • Translator, The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace, the only complete translation of Horace
      Horace
      Quintus Horatius Flaccus , known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus.-Life:...

      's poems until that of Philip Francis
      Philip Francis (translator)
      Philip Francis was an Anglo-Irish clergyman and writer, now remembered as a translator of Horace.-Life:He was son of Dr. John Francis, rector of St. Mary's, Dublin , and dean of Lismore, and was born about 1708. He was sent to Trinity College, Dublin, taking the degree of B.A...

       (see 1743
      1743 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Robert Blair, The Grave a work representative of the Graveyard poets movement* Samuel Boyse, Albion's Triumph...

      , 1747
      1747 in poetry
      Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir William Blackstone, The Panthion, published anonymously, attribution uncertain* William Dunkin, Boeotia...

      )
  • Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse, criticism in verse form, a second edition was also published this year
  • John Dryden
    John Dryden
    John Dryden was an influential English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.Walter Scott called him "Glorious John." He was made Poet...

     and Jacob Tonson
    Jacob Tonson
    Jacob Tonson, sometimes referred to as Jacob Tonson the elder was an 18th-century English bookseller and publisher....

    , editors, Miscellany Poems, first in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson (see also Sylvae 1685
    1685 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...

    ,
    Examen Poeticum 1693
    1693 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum-Britain:* Richard Ames, Fatal...

    ,
    Annual Miscellany 1694
    1694 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets...

    ,
    Poetical Miscellaneis: Fifth Part 1704
    1704 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-- From William Shippen's, Faction Display'd, the work of a Tory poet on the powerful Whig publisher Jacob Tonson whose series of anthologies, known as Dryden's Miscellanies or Tonson's Miscellanies used the...

    ; Sixth Part
    1709
    1709 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...

    )
  • Thomas D'Urfey
    Thomas d'Urfey
    Thomas D'Urfey was an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the Ballad opera....

    , The Malcontent: a Satyr, published anonymously; a sequel to The Progress of Honesty 1681
    1681 in poetry
    — First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published this yearNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:...

  • John Norris
    John Norris
    John Norris, sometimes called John Norris of Bemerton, was an English theologian, philosopher and poet associated with the Cambridge Platonists.-Life:...

    , Poems and Discourses. Occasionally written
  • John Oldham
    John Oldham (poet)
    John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator.-Life and work:Oldham was born in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, the son of John Oldham, a non-conformist minister, and grandson of John Oldham the staunch anti-papist rector of Shipton Moyne and before that of Long Newton in Wiltshire...

    , The Works of Mr John Oldham, posthumously published

Births

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  • December 3 – Ludvig Holberg
    Ludvig Holberg
    Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian double monarchy, who spent most of his adult life in Denmark. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque...

     (died 1754
    1754 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Thomas Cooke, An Ode on Poetry, Painting, and Sculpture, published anonymously...

    ), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright

Deaths

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  • Wu Jiaji
    Wu Jiaji
    Wu Jiaji was a Chinese poet, and an associate of the official and literary figure Zhou Lianggong.Wu’s writings provide us with a glimpse of conditions just prior to the Manchu Qing conquest and especially descriptions of social conditions in rural society. Wu was from Taizhou, Jiangsu, an area...

     (born 1618
    1618 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days...

    ), Chinese poet

See also

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...

  • 17th century in poetry
    17th century in poetry
    -Denmark:* Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor , hymns, some of which are still sung-Other:* Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen Poeterey , Germany-Danish poets:* Anders Arrebo...

  • 17th century in literature
    17th century in literature
    See also: 17th century in poetry, 16th century in literature*Early Modern literature*other events of the 17th century*18th century in literature, 1700 in literature,and list of years in literature.-Events and trends:...

  • Restoration literature
    Restoration literature
    Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration , which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland...

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