1699 in poetry

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Events

 * English poet Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet (greatly admired in England for his verse) whose poems Prior had lampooned in 1695 and would again satirize in 1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote:


 * [...] Old friend, old foe, for such we are
 * Alternate, as the chance of peace and war)

Works published in English
==Other languages
 * Thomas Traherne's A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
 * Thomas Hansen Kingo, Psalmebog, with 85 of his own compositions; still used in some parts of Denmark and Norway;

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Robert Blair (died 1746), Scottish
 * John Dyer (born in either 1699 or 1700), Anglo-Welsh poet (d. 1758)
 * John Ellis
 * Leonard Howard (d. 1767), Divine also dubbed poet laureate in the King's Bench
 * Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (died 1781), Indian, Urdu-language poet
 * Christopher Pitt (died 1748), English poet and translator
 * Alexander Ross, Scottish

Deaths
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 * April 22 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann, Freiherr von Abschatz (born 1646), German
 * Also: Joseph Beaumont (born 1616), English clergyman, academic and poet