Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Matsuo BashÃ
Â, Oku no Hosomichi (奥ã®細éÂÂ, "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 HonshÃ
« undertaken in 1689.
- Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (criticism)
- Daniel Defoe:
- The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King William
- Reformation of Manners: A satyr, published anonymously
- 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's Magnalia Christi Americana, English Colonial America
- 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 "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 26 – Philip Doddridge (died 1751), English Nonconformist preacher and writer
- August 26 РJudith Madan, n̩e Cowper (died 1781), English poet
- October 24 – Yokoi YayÃ
« 横亠ä¹ÂæÂÂ, born , taking pseudonym TatsunojÃ
 (died 1783), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
- Also – Kenrick Prescot (died 1779), English poet
- Approximate date
- David Mallet (died 1765), Scottish poet and dramatist
- Francis Williams (died 1770), black Jamaican scholar and poet
- Antonina Niemiryczowa (died 1780), Polish poet
Deaths
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See also
Notes