1688 in literature

List of years in literature (table)
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The year 1688 in literature involved some significant literary events and new works.

Events

February - John Locke returns to England in the escort of Princess Mary;^[1] in the same year he has the first abstract of his seminal An Essay Concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle (although the work itself is not published until the following year).
December – After John Dryden refuses to swear allegiance to the new monarchy following the Glorious Revolution, the writer is dismissed as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the only laureate not to die in office until Andrew Motion in 1999.^[2]
Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost.^[3]

David Abercromby – Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore
Etienne Baluze – Marca hispanica
Aphra Behn:
The "Bucharest Bible" – Biblia de la Bucureşti, first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle – Digression sur les anciens et les modernes
Ihara Saikaku
- The Eternal Storehouse of Japan
- Tales of Samurai Honor
Henry More – Divine Dialogues
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax – The Anatomy of an Equivalent
Anonymous - The life and death of young Lazarillo

January 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian. (died 1772)
February – Hermanus Angelkot junior, Dutch pharmacist, poet and dramatist (died 1727)
February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (died 1763)
April 2 (baptised) – Lewis Theobald, English Shakespearean editor (died 1744)
May 21 – Alexander Pope, English poet (died 1744)
September – Laurence Eusden, English poet (died 1730)
November 13 – Noël-Antoine Pluche, French natural historian and priest (died 1761)
December 24 – Johann Bachstrom, Polish theologian and writer (died 1742)
Unknown dates
- Richard Bradley, English scientific writer (died 1732)
- John Morgan, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1733)
- Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
Probable year of birth – William Meston, Scottish poet (died 1745)

March 15 – Peter Walsh, Irish politician and historian (born 1618)
May 14 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (born 1619)
May 22 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (born 1617)
June 26 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer and preacher (born 1628)
September 22 – François Bernier, French physician and travel writer (born 1625)
October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German/Dutch art historian (born 1606)
November 16 – Bengt Gottfried Forselius, Swedish Estonian educational pioneer (born c. 1660)
November 26 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
December 8 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and painter (born 1635)
Unknown date – Thomas Jevon, English playwright and harlequin (born 1652)

↑ Oregon State University: John Locke chronology Accessed 26 April 2013
↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 196–197. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
↑ Illustrating Paradise Lost