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Events[]

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Works published in English[]

England[]

  • Sir Richard Blackmore, A Satyr Against Wit, published anonymously; an attack on the "Wits", including John Dryden[1]
  • Samuel CobbPoetae Britannici his most famous poem, a survey of previous English poetry in a light style, clear diction, and imagery that later critics like John Nichols considered "sublime".
John Dryden portrait

John Dryden died this year

  • Daniel Defoe, The Pacificator, published anonymously, verse satire in the literary war between the "Men of Sense" and the "Men of Wit"[1]
  • John DrydenFables, Ancient and Modern (Dryden's final anthology)
  • William King, The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies, published anonymously, a satire on Sir Hans Sloane, editor of the Transactions of the Royal Society[1]
  • John Pomfret, Reason[1]
  • Nahum TatePanacea, a poem upon tea[1]
  • John Tutchin, The Foreigners, published anonymously; provoked a reply from Daniel Defoe in The True-Born Englishman in 1701[1]
  • Edward Ward, The Reformer, published anonymously[1]
  • Thomas YaldenThe Temple of Fame

Births[]

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

  • February 2 – Johann Christoph Gottsched (died 1766), German
  • January 14 – Christian Friedrich Henrici (died 1764), German
  • May 26 – Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf (died 1760), German
  • September 11 – James Thomson, Scottish poet (died 1748)
  • September 30 – Stanisław Konarski. actual name: Hieronim Konarski (died 1773), Polish pedagogue, educational reformer, political writer, poet, dramatist, Piarist monk and precursor of the Polish Enlightenment
Also

Deaths[]

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

  • May 12 – John Dryden, English poet (born 1631)
  • July 19 – Thomas Creech (born 1659), English translator of classical poetry, found dead this day from suicide
Also
    • Francisco Antonio de Fuentes y Guzmán (born 1643), Guatemalan historian and poet
    • Bahinabai (born 1628), Varkari female poet-saint from Maharashtra
    • Edward Howard died about this year (born 1624), playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard[1]
    • Jamie Macpherson (born 1675), Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament

See also[]

Notes[]

  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. 2.0 2.1 Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books

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