Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France
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Events
Works published
*
Matsuo Bashō, ''
Oku no Hosomichi'' (奥の細道, "The Narrow Road to the Interior" or "The Narrow Road to the Deep North") is published posthumously. This poetic travel diary chronicles a journey to the Northern Provinces of Honshū undertaken in 1689.
[ Bolitho, Harold (2003), in ''Treasures of the Yenching: seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Library'', Chinese University Press. . p. 35.]
*
Edward Bysshe, ''The Art of English Poetry''
[Grun, Bernard, ''The Timetables of History'', third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 320] (criticism)
*
Daniel Defoe
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:
** ''The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King William''
** ''Reformation of Manners: A satyr'', published anonymously
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** ''The Spanish Descent''][
* John Dennis, ''The Monument'', a memorial poem on the death of William III on March 8][
* George Farquhar, ''Love and Business'', verse and prose][
* William King - ''De Origine Mali'' (in Latin)
* Mary Mollineux, ''Fruits of Retirement; or, Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine''][
* Nicholas Noyes, "A Prefatory Poem", the preface for ]Cotton Mather
Cotton Mather (; February 12, 1663 – February 13, 1728) was a Puritan clergyman and author in colonial New England, who wrote extensively on theological, historical, and scientific subjects. After being educated at Harvard College, he join ...
's '' Magnalia Christi Americana'', English Colonial America
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[Burt, Daniel S.]
''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times''
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books
* John Pomfret, ''Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions''
* Sir Charles Sedley, ''Miscellaneous Works'' (posthumous)
* Joseph Stennett, ''A Poem to the Memory of His Late Majesty William the Third''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* June 26 – Philip Doddridge (died 1751), English Nonconformist preacher and writer
* August 26 – Judith Madan, née Cowper (died 1781
Events
January–March
* January – William Pitt the Younger, later Prime Minister of Great Britain, enters Parliament of Great Britain, Parliament, aged 21.
* January 1 – Industrial Revolution: The Iron Bridge opens ...
), English poet[
* October 24 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born , taking pseudonym Tatsunojō (died 1783), Japanese ]samurai
The samurai () were members of the warrior class in Japan. They were originally provincial warriors who came from wealthy landowning families who could afford to train their men to be mounted archers. In the 8th century AD, the imperial court d ...
, scholar of Kokugaku
was an academic movement, a school of Japanese philology and philosophy originating during the Edo period. scholars worked to refocus Japanese scholarship away from the then-dominant study of Chinese, Confucian, and Buddhist texts in favor of ...
and haikai
''Haikai'' ( Japanese 俳諧 ''comic, unorthodox'') may refer in both Japanese and English to ''haikai no renga'' ( renku), a popular genre of Japanese linked verse, which developed in the sixteenth century out of the earlier aristocratic renga. ...
poet
* Also – Kenrick Prescot (died 1779
Events
January–March
* January 11
** British troops surrender to the Marathas in Wadgaon, India, and are forced to return all territories acquired since 1773.
* January 22 – American Revolutionary War – Claudius Smi ...
), English poet
* Approximate date
** David Mallet (died 1765
Events
January–March
* January 23 – Prince Joseph of Austria marries Princess Maria Josepha of Bavaria in Vienna.
* January 29 – One week before his death, Mir Jafar, who had been enthroned as the Nawab of Bengal and ...
), Scottish poet and dramatist
** Francis Williams (died 1770
Events January– March
* January 1 – The foundation of Fort George, Bombay is laid by Colonel Keating, principal engineer, on the site of the former Dongri Fort.
* February 1 – Thomas Jefferson's home at Shadwell, Vi ...
), black Jamaican scholar and poet
** Antonina Niemiryczowa (died 1780
Events
January–March
* January 16 – American Revolutionary War – Battle of Cape St. Vincent: British Admiral Sir George Rodney defeats a Spanish fleet.
* February 19 – The legislature of New York votes to all ...
), Polish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " earin poetry" article:
* May 26 – Zeb-un-Nissa (Makhfi) (born 1638
Events January–March
* January 4
**A naval battle takes place in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Goa in South India as a Netherlands fleet commanded by Admiral Adam Westerwolt decimates the Portuguese fleet.
**A fleet of 80 Spanis ...
), Persian poet and Mughal princess
* Late November – John Pomfret (born 1667), English poet and clergyman
* December 18 ''(bur.)'' – Laurens Bake (born 1629
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Henry Frederick, Hereditary Prince of the Palatinate, the 15-year-old son of the German Palatinate elector, Frederick V of the Palatinate, Frederick V, drowns in an accident while sailing ...
), Dutch poet
See also
* Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
* List of years in poetry
* 18th century in poetry
* 18th century in literature
* Augustan poetry
Notes
{{Lists of poets
18th-century poetry
Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...