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            List of years in poetry       (table)
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   In literature: 1690 1691 1692 -1693- 1694 1695 1696     
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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

Works published in English[]

England[]

  • Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery[1]
  • Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money[1]
  • Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
  • Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord[1]
Anthologies
Anthologies
  • John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709;[1] sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
    • Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses[2]
    • Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses[2]
    • Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses[2]
    • Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad[2]

Other languages[]

  • Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry[2]

Births[]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Deaths[]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • Dosoftei (born 1624), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
  • Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (born 1621), Polish poet and member of the noble class Szlachta
  • Ihara Saikaku, Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose, ukiyo-zōshi (born 1642).

See also[]

References[]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 96, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960") Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "mvdjdas" defined multiple times with different content

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