1674 in poetry

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Contents 1 Events 2 Works published 2.1 France 2.2 Great Britain 2.3 Other 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 See also 6 References

Events

Works published

France

• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:
  • L'Art poétique, in imitation of the Ars Poetica of Horace, and very influential in French and English literature; Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism imitated Boileau's maxims; in four books: the first and last containing general precepts; the second, on the pastoral, elegy, ode, epigram and satire; the third, on epic and tragic poetry
  • Le Lutrin, a mock-heroic poem in four cantos, with two later added by the author
  • Translator, On the Sublime, from the Latin of Longinus; a second edition in 1693 also included certain critical reflections
  • Second Epistle^[1]
  • Third Epistle
• Rene Rapin, Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, criticism, France; translated into English this year by Thomas Rymer^[2]

Great Britain

• Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts, published anonymously (see Hudibras, the First Part 1663, Hudibras. The Second Part 1664, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part 1678; Hudibras. In Three Parts 1684)^[2]
• Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs^[2]
• John Milton, Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books, the second edition, revised and expanded to 12 books, published in July; commendatory poems by "S.B." in Latin and Andrew Marvell in English (see also Paradise Lost 1667)^[2]
• Thomas Rymer, translation, Reflections on Aristotles Treatise of Posie, published anonymously, criticism translated from Rene Rapin's Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, also published this year^[2]

Other

• Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Song Choir"), first part (second part 1681), Denmark

Births

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• Mary Davys (died 1732), poet and playwright
• Ambrose Philips (died 1749), English poet and politician
• Elizabeth Rowe (died 1737) English novelist, playwright and poet
• Nicholas Rowe (died 1718), English poet and dramatist
• Isaac Watts (died 1748), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"

Deaths

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

• February 22 – Jean Chapelain (born 1595), French poet and writer
• June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville (born 1600), French poet and novelist
• October 10 – Thomas Traherne (born 1636), English poet and religious writer
• October 15 – Robert Herrick – (born 1591)
• October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson (born 1614), one of Iceland's most famous poets and a clergyman
• November 8 – John Milton (born 1608)
• Also:
  • Nicolaes Borremans (born 1614), Dutch Remonstrants preacher, poet, and editor
  • Mehmed IV Giray (born 1610), poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
  • Neşâtî (born unknown), Ottoman Sufi mystical poet

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

References

1. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 92, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6