1694 in poetry

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Works published in English

 * Edmund Arwaker, An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau, inviting his Muse to forsake the French interest and celebrate the King of England, verse addressed to Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, reflecting the high esteem the French poet had in England at a time when the French government was considered a dangerous enemy
 * Charles Hopkins, Epistolary Poems
 * Anthologies
 * John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694, the fourth in a series published by Tonson from 1684–1709; sometimes referred to as "Dryden's third Miscellany or "Tonson's third Miscellany or just "the third Miscellany; includes Dryden's translation from the original Latin of the third book of Virgil's Georgic
 * Charles Gildon, editor, Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions, an anthology including work by Aphra Behn, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Denham, Sir George Etherege and Andrew Marvell
 * Biography, criticism, scholarship
 * Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets
 * Sir Thomas Pope Blount, De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable poets, whether Ancient or Modern, Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Critics , an anthology of criticism

Births
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 * James Bramston, English poet (died 1744)
 * Hans Adolph Brorson (died 1764), Danish
 * Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, British statesman and poet (died 1773)
 * Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist, and philosopher (died 1778)

Deaths
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 * Matsuo Basho, Japanese poet of the Edo period (born 1644)