1699 in poetry

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Events

English poet Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet (greatly admired in England for his verse) whose poems Prior had lampooned in 1695 and would again satirize in 1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote:^[1]

[...] Old friend, old foe, for such we are

Alternate, as the chance of peace and war)

Thomas Traherne, A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God
John Hopkins, Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall of Man
Thomas Hansen Kingo, Psalmebog, with 85 of his own compositions; still used in some parts of Denmark and Norway

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

April 13 – Alexander Ross (died 1784), Scottish poet
April 17 – Robert Blair (died 1746), Scottish poet
August 13 (bapt.) – John Dyer (died 1757), Anglo-Welsh poet
Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (died 1781), Indian, Urdu-language poet
Christopher Pitt (died 1748), English poet and translator
Approximate date – Leonard Howard (died 1767), English clergyman and "poet laureate in the King's Bench"^[2]

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

↑ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 26, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
↑ "Leonard Howard" article in DNB

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

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