1689 in literature

none July 2020 1689 literature This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1689. Events April 30 – Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal in England.Thomas Shadwell Prefatory note. The text. Introduction. Chronology. Genealogical table. A sermon. The sullen lovers. The royal shepherdesse. The humorists https://books.google.com/books?id=gCtaAAAAMAAJ 1927 Fortune Press ccliv April/May – Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.Eugene Hammond Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In https://books.google.com/books?id=DXGoCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA61 2016 2016-03-22 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-61149-607-9 61 May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North). New books Prose Richard Cox – la Hibernia Anglicana George Hickes – la Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae John Locke Two Treatises of Government (anonymous) A Letter Concerning Toleration (as by 'P.A.P.O.I.L.A.', in Latin) An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (dated 1690) John Selden (died 1654) – Table Talk Johann Weikhard von Valvasor – The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain) Drama Aphra Behn – The Widow Ranter James Carlile – The Fortune Hunters Sor Juana – es Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth) Nathaniel Lee – The Massacre of Paris William Mountfort – The Successful Strangers Thomas Shadwell – Bury Fair Nahum Tate – Dido and Aeneas Matthew Taubman – London's Great Jubilee Births January 18 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)Montesquieu The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Edition https://books.google.com/books?id=4OYK1pBoeYUC&pg=PA3 1977 University of California Press 978-0-520-03455-6 3 2022-01-04 January 21 – Daniel Henchman, Colonial American bookseller and publisher (died 1761) May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English poet and letter-writer (died 1762) July 9 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773) August 19 (bapt.) – Samuel Richardson, English novelist (died 1761)2022-01-04 Richetti, John The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel https://books.google.com/books?id=4HqlJqJ8dUEC&pg=PA92 1996 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-42945-0 92 Deaths January – William Chamberlayne, English poet and playwright (born c. 1619) February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch-born collector of manuscripts (born 1618) April 16 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist, poet and novelist (born 1640)BBC - History - Aphra Behn https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/behn_aphra.shtml www.bbc.co.uk 2019-03-26 August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish soldier and poet (killed in battle, born c. 1661) November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet and hymn-writer (born 1619) December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet (born c. 1628) Unknown date – Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian-language author (born c. 1630) References