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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
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Events

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Works published

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  • Richard Ames:
    • The Double Descent, published anonymously[1]
    • The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously[1]
    • Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness, anonymous reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're of 1682 (see also Sylvia's Revenge 1688)[1]
  • Richard Baxter, translator, Paraphrase on the Psalms of David[1]
  • John Crowne, translator, The Daeneids, translation of Le Lutrin from the original French of Boileau[2]
  • John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously[1]
  • John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics, Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end [...]"[3]
  • Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations,[1] in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry[4]
  • Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology[1]
  • Matthew Prior, An Ode in Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace[1]
  • William Walsh, Letters and Poems, amorous and Gallant, published anonymously[1]

Births

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

Deaths

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  2. ^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p 12, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
  3. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 126, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
  4. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 101, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")