1693 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum
Works
Britain
- Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery[1]
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709;[1] sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
- Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad[2]
- John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others[1]
- Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money[1]
- Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
- Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord[1]
Other languages
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Hildebrand Jacob, English poet (died 1739)
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (born 1621), Polish poet and member of the noble Szlachta class
- September 9 – Ihara Saikaku (born 1642), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world") genre of prose fiction
- December 13 – Dosoftei (born 1624), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
See also
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature
- Poetry
Notes
- 1 2 3 4 5 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 1 2 3 4 Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 96, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ↑ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 193, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
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