1687 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained
Works published
- John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions,[1] published anonymously[2]
- John Dryden:
- Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes[2]
- John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry[2]
- Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)[2]
- Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages[2]
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
- Sor Marcela de San Felix (born 1605), daughter of Lope de Vega, Spanish
- Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
- Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
- Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
- George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
- Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
- Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet
See also
Notes
- ^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau+and+the+French+Classical+Critics+in+England&source=bl&ots=riSMnwEyAN&sig=vIZFHRatSiUEVSYrihbIOzCp4tA&hl=en&ei=XkJ3S_aHEMvf8QaOmOHDCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CAcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 4, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ a b c d e f g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
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