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1687 in poetry
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1687 poetry literature
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained
Works published
Great Britain
John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions,Clark Alexander Frederick Bruce https://books.google.com/books?id=9385ZgRwSy4C&q=Boileau+and+the+French+Classical+Critics+in+England Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830) Franklin, Burt 1971 978-0-8337-4046-5 4 Google Books 2010-02-13 published anonymously
John Dryden:
The Hind and the Panther, published anonymously (see also the work by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, below)Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes
John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry
Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)
Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages
Other
John Cotton II, Poem Occasioned by the Death of [...] John Alden, English Colonial American (Massachusetts)Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
Benjamin Harris, compiler, The New England Primer, English Colonial American
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
June 13 – Paolo Rolli (died 1765), Italian librettist, poet and translator
c. August 26 – Henry Carey (suicide 1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
Mary Chandler (died 1745), English poet and milliner
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 28 – Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
April 28 – Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
May 6 – Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet
September 1 – Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
October 21 – Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
See also
Poetry
Poetry
17th century in poetry
17th century in literature
Restoration literature
Notes
Category:17th-century poetry
Poetry