1688 in literature
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See also: 1687 in literature, other events of 1688, 1689 in literature, list of years in literature.
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[edit] Events
- John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle
- Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost
- First printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress
[edit] New books
- The "Bucharest Bible" - Biblia de la Bucureşti, first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
- Aphra Behn - Oroonoko, the Royal Slave
[edit] Non-fiction
- David Abercromby - Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore
- Etienne Baluze - Marca hispanica
- Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Digression sur les anciens et les modernes
- Henry More - Divine Dialogues
- George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - The Anatomy of an Equivalent
[edit] Births
- January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian. (died 1772)
- February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, playwright (died 1763)
- April 2 (baptised) - Lewis Theobald, Shakespearean editor (died 1744)
- May 21 - Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744)
- date unknown - Laurence Eusden, poet (died 1730)
- date unknown - John Morgan, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1733)
- date unknown - Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
- probable - William Meston, poet (died 1745)
[edit] Deaths
- March 15 - Peter Walsh, politician and historian (born 1618)
- May 14 - Antoine Furetière, satirist (born 1619)
- June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
- August 31 - John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress (born 1628)
- October 14 - Joachim von Sandrart, art historian (born 1606)
- November 16 - Bengt Gottfried Forselius, educational pioneer (born c.1660)
- November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
- date unknown - François Bernier, doctor and travel writer (born 1625)
- date unknown - Thomas Flatman, poet and painter (born 1637)
