1681 in poetry
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Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, Lady, were no crime We would sit down and think which way To walk and pass our long love's day. |
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— First lines from Andrew Marvell's To His Coy Mistress, first published (posthumously) this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
Great Britain
- Richard Baxter, Poetical Fragments[1]
- Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake[1]
- John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, published anonymously; a satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth (see also The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel as well as other poetic responses 1682)[1]
- Thomas D'Urfey, The Progress of Honesty; or, A View of a Court and City (see also The Malcontent 1684)[1]
- Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems, published posthumously,[1] including "To His Coy Mistress"
- John Oldham, Satyrs upon the Jesuits, published anonymously (the first "Satyr Upon the Jesuits" had been published in 1679 in the form of a broadside under the title Garnets Ghost)[1]
Other
- Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Song Choir"), second part (first part 1674), Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Johann Ernst Hanxleden (died 1732), poet and lexicographer
- Nedîm (died 1730), Ottoman poet
- Edward Young (died 1765), English poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 25 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (born 1600), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
Also:
- Charles Cotin (born 1604), French abbé, philosopher and poet
- Nikolaes Heinsius (born 1620), Dutch poet and scholar
- Samarth Ramdas (born 1608), Marathi saint and religious poet
- Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (born 1617), English Royalist soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet
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