1681 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Richard Baxter, Poetical Fragments
• Charles Cotton, The Wonders of the Peake
• John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, published anonymously; a satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth
• Thomas D'Urfey, The Progress of Honesty; or, A View of a Court and City
• Andrew Marvell, Miscellaneous Poems, published posthumously, including "To His Coy Mistress"
• John Oldham, Satyrs upon the Jesuits, published anonymously

  Other

• Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor, second part, Denmark

  Births

• March 24 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer and poet
• Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German poet and lexicographer
• Nedîm, Ottoman poet

  Deaths

• May 25 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
• August 12 - Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet, English Royalist soldier, astrologer and poet
• October 7 - Nikolaes Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
• December - Charles Cotin, French abbé, philosopher and poet
• Magha 9, 1603 - Samarth Ramdas, Marathi saint and religious poet