1698 in poetry

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Works published in English

 * Aphra Behn, Poetical Remains

Births
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 * January 13 – Metastasio, Italian (died 1782)
 * May 8 – Henry Baker (died 1774), naturalist, poet, sign-language developer
 * July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (died 1783), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet

Deaths
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 * September 3 – Sir Robert Howard (born 1626), English playwright, poet and brother-in-law of John Dryden
 * Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (born 1625), Irish language poets
 * Nicolò Minato (born 1627), Italian poet, librettist and impresario