1698 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works

• Aphra Behn – Poetical Remains
• John Hopkins
  • The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin
  • The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty^[1]

Births

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

• January 13 – Metastasio, Italian (died 1782)
• May 8 – Henry Baker (died 1774), naturalist, poet, sign-language developer
• July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (died 1783), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet

Deaths

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

• September 3 – Sir Robert Howard (born 1626), English playwright, poet and brother-in-law of John Dryden
• Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (born 1625), Irish language poet
• Nicolò Minato (born 1627), Italian poet, librettist and impresario

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Poetry

Notes

External links

• "A Timeline of Poetry in English" at the Representative Poetry Online website of the University of Toronto