1688 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
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:...

).

Events

  • After 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...

     refused to swear allegiance to the new government after James II of England
    James II of England
    James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...

     was deposed, the writer was dismissed as poet laureate
    Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
    The Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, also referred to as the Poet Laureate, is the Poet Laureate appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister...

     of England
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

    , to be replaced by his old enemy, Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell
    Thomas Shadwell was an English poet and playwright who was appointed poet laureate in 1689.-Life:Shadwell was born at Stanton Hall, Norfolk, and educated at Bury St Edmunds School, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, which he entered in 1656. He left the university without a degree, and...

    . (Dryden was the only laureate not to die in office until Andrew Motion
    Andrew Motion
    Sir Andrew Motion, FRSL is an English poet, novelist and biographer, who presided as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1999 to 2009.- Life and career :...

     in 1999. Shadwell held the office until his death in 1692
    1692 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Richard Ames:** The Double Descent, published anonymously** The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously...

    .)
  • Poet and city founder Francis Daniel Pastorius
    Francis Daniel Pastorius
    thumb|right|300px|Home of Francis Daniel Pastorius in Germantown, PA as it appeared circa 1919Francis Daniel Pastorius was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German settlement and the gateway for subsequent emigrants from Germany. He was "the...

     signs a protest against slavery, the first one made in the English colonies

Works published

  • Richard Ames, Sylvia's Revenge; or, A Satyr Against Man, published anonymously; response to Robert Gould
    Robert Gould
    Robert Gould was a significant voice in Restoration poetry in England.He was born in the lower classes and orphaned when he was thirteen. It is possible that he had a sister, but her name and fate are unknown. Gould entered into domestic service...

    's Love Given O're 1682
    1682 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles concerning that nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Matthew Coppinger, Poems, Songs and Lover-Verses, upon Several Subjects...

     (see also Sylvia's Complaint 1692
    1692 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Richard Ames:** The Double Descent, published anonymously** The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously...

    )
  • Jane Barker
    Jane Barker
    Jane Barker was an English poet and novelist of the early 18th century. The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia was considered her most successful work. A staunch Jacobite, she followed King James II of England into exile at Saint-Germain-en-Laye in France shortly after James’ defeat in the Glorious...

     and others, Poetical Recreations
  • 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:...

    , A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty, addressed to Queen Mary
    Mary of Modena
    Mary of Modena was Queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the second wife of King James II and VII. A devout Catholic, Mary became, in 1673, the second wife of James, Duke of York, who later succeeded his older brother Charles II as King James II...

    , on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart
    James Francis Edward Stuart
    James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales was the son of the deposed James II of England...

     on June 10
  • Thomas Brown
    Thomas Brown
    Thomas Brown may refer to:*Thomas Brunce , also known as Thomas Brown, English Bishop of Rochester & of Norwich*Thomas Brown , American husbandman, businessman, and land speculator...

    , The Reasons of Mr. Bays Changing his Religion, published anonymously; about 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...

     (see also The Late Converts Exposed 1690
    1690 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, published anonymously * Thomas D'Urfey:** Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster** New Poems* John Glanvill, Some Odes of Horace...

    )
  • John Bunyan
    John Bunyan
    John Bunyan was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church on 29 August.-Life:In 1628,...

    , A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of the House of God
  • 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...

    , Britannia Rediviva, on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart
    James Francis Edward Stuart
    James Francis Edward, Prince of Wales was the son of the deposed James II of England...

  • George Wither
    George Wither
    George Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V...

    , Divine Poems on the Ten Commandments


Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • April 2 (baptised) – Lewis Theobald
    Lewis Theobald
    Lewis Theobald , British textual editor and author, was a landmark figure both in the history of Shakespearean editing and in literary satire...

     (died 1744
    1744 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare
  • May 21 — Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...

     (died 1744
    1744 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* John Armstrong, The Art of Preserving Health...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...

     poet
  • Kavi Samrat Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or this year (died 1740
    1740 in poetry
    -Great Britain:* Sarah Dixon, Several Occasions, Canterbury: J. Abree* John Dyer, The Ruins of Rome* Richard Glover, An Apology for the Life of Mr...

    ), poet of Oriya Literature
    Oriya literature
    Oriya is an official language of the state of Orissa, India. The region has been known at different stages of history as Kalinga, Udra, Utkala, or Koshala. The language is also spoken by minority populations of the neighboring states of Jharkhand, West Bengal, Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh. The...

     and awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
  • Mary Collier
    Mary Collier
    Mary Collier was an English poet, perhaps best known for her poetic risposte to Stephen Duck, The Woman's Labour.Collier is an important figure in the self-taught, laboring-class tradition in eighteenth-century poetry, a tradition which also includes Duck, as well as Ann Yearsley and Mary...

     (died 1762
    1762 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Colonial America:* Thomas Godfrey, "The Court of Fancy: A Poem", English, Colonial America* Francis Hopkinson, English, Colonial America:...

    ), English poet
  • Laurence Eusden
    Laurence Eusden
    Laurence Eusden was an English poet who became Poet Laureate in 1718.- Life :Laurence Eusden was born in Spofforth in the North Riding of Yorkshire in 1688 to the Rev. Laurence Eusden, rector of Spofforth, Yorkshire. Eusden was baptized on 6 September 1688...

     (died 1730
    1730 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English, Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C...

    ), English poet who became Poet Laureate in 1718
  • William Meston
    William Meston
    William Meston was a Scottish poet.The son of a blacksmith, he was educated at Marischal College, Aberdeen, took part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715, and had to go into hiding. His Knight of the Kirk is an imitation of Hudibras....

     (died 1745
    1745 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* With the death of Jonathan Swift, the age of Augustan poetry ends at about this time.* End of the Scriblerus Club-Works published:...

    ), Scottish poet
  • John Morgan
    John Morgan (poet)
    John Morgan was a Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet.-Life:...

     (died 1733
    1733 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, Verses Address'd to the Imitator of the First Satire of the Second Book of Horace, "By a lady", has been attributed to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu* John Banks, Poems on Several...

     or 1734
    1734 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-United Kingdom:* Anonymous, A Rap at the Rhapsody * Jean Adam, Miscellany Poems...

    ), Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
  • Leonard Welsted
    Leonard Welsted
    Leonard Welsted was an English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings . Welsted was an accomplished writer who composed in a relaxed, light hearted vein...

     (died 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...

    ), English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope
    Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. He is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson...

    's writings

Deaths

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  • Thomas Flatman
    Thomas Flatman
    Thomas Flatman was an English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs . One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London...

     (born 1637
    1637 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson -Works published:* Sir William Alexander, Recreations with the Muses, contains Four Monarchicke Tragedies,...

    ), English poet and miniature painter
  • Philippe Quinault
    Philippe Quinault
    Philippe Quinault , French dramatist and librettist, was born in Paris.- Biography :Quinault was educated by the liberality of François Tristan l'Hermite, the author of Marianne. Quinault's first play was produced at the Hôtel de Bourgogne in 1653, when he was only eighteen...

     (born 1635
    1635 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...

    ), French dramatist, poet, and librettist

See also

  • List of years in poetry
  • List of years in literature
  • 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...

  • 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...

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