1694 in poetry
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Events
- Matsuo Bashō completes the writing of Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior").
Works
- Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets[1]
- Edmund Arwaker, An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau, inviting his Muse to forsake the French interest and celebrate the King of England, verse addressed to Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, reflecting the high esteem the French poet had in England at a time when the French government was considered a dangerous enemy[2][3]
- Sir Thomas Pope Blount, De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable poets, whether Ancient or Modern, Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Critics , an anthology of criticism[4]
- Isabella Correa, translation of Il pastor fido into Spanish
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694, the fourth in a series published by Tonson from 1684–1709; sometimes referred to as "Dryden's third Miscellany or "Tonson's third Miscellany or just "the third Miscellany;[2] includes Dryden's translation from the original Latin of the third book of Virgil's Georgic[5]
- Charles Gildon, editor, Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions, an anthology including work by Aphra Behn, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Denham, Sir George Etherege and Andrew Marvell[2]
- Charles Hopkins, Epistolary Poems[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 20 – Hans Adolph Brorson (died 1764), Danish Pietist bishop and hymnodist
- September 22 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (died 1773), English statesman and poet
- November 21 – Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (died 1778), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
- Approximate date – James Bramston (died 1743), English poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- November 28 – Matsuo Bashō (born 1644), Japanese Edo period poet
See also
- List of years in poetry
- List of years in literature
- 17th century in poetry
- 17th century in literature
- Poetry
Notes
- ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 246, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p. 20, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ Clark, p. 16, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 100, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")