1685 in poetry

Events

Works published

Colonial America">Colonial American literature">Colonial America

• Cotton Mather, An Elegy on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America

  Germany">German poetry">Germany

• Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German:
• * Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes, hymns; published in Rudolstadt
• * Tägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abendopfer, hymns; published in Rudolstadt

  Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Henry Bold, translator, Latine Songs, with their English: and Poems, includes "Chevy Chase", a ballad, and Sir John Suckling's poem "Why so pale and wan fond lover?"
• John Cutts,, La Muse de Cavalier; or, An Apology for such gentleman as make poetry their diversion, not their business in a letter by a scholar of Mars to one of Apollo, published anonymously
• Sir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously
• John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, Sylvae; or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, the second in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson; has translations from Virgil, Lucretius, Theocritus and Horace, mostly by Dryden
• Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions
• Edmund Waller, Divine Poems
• Samuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymously
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously published

  English verses on the death of Charles II and coronation of James II

• Edmund Arwaker:
• * The Vision
• * The Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James II
• Aphra Behn:
• * A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign
• * A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II
• John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles II
• Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in April

Gujarat">Gujarati literature">Gujarat

• Premanand Bhatt, Nalākhyān, Gujarati

  Norway">Norwegian literature">Norway

• Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Taare-Offer, Norwegian

  Births

• February 10 - Aaron Hill, English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
• June 30 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist
• December 17 - Thomas Tickell, English poet and man of letters
• Mary Barber, English poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
• Jane Brereton, English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
• William Diaper, English poet of the Augustan era
• William Harrison, English poet and diplomat

  Deaths

• January 18 - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Anglo-Irish poet
• June 16 - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter
• July 1 - Nalan Xingde, Chinese Qing dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetry
• October 12 - Gerard Brandt, Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian
• Francesc Fontanella, Catalan poet, dramatist and priest