1688 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.Events
- December - After John Dryden refuses to swear allegiance to the new monarchy following the Glorious Revolution, the writer is dismissed as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, the only laureate not to die in office until the initiation of fixed-term appointments with Andrew Motion in 1999. Dryden is replaced in 1689 by his old enemy, Thomas Shadwell, who holds the office until his death in 1692.
- Fourth edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost published by Jacob Tonson in London; the artists include John Baptist Medina.
- Poet and city founder Francis Daniel Pastorius signs a protest against slavery, the first one made in the English colonies.
Works published
- Richard Ames, Sylvia's Revenge; or, A Satyr Against Man, published anonymously; response to Robert Gould's Love Given O're 1682
- Jane Barker and others, Poetical Recreations
- Aphra Behn, A Congratulatory Poem to Her Most Sacred Majesty, addressed to Queen Mary, on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart on June 10
- Thomas Brown, The Reasons of Mr. Bays Changing his Religion, published anonymously; about John Dryden
- John Bunyan, A Discourse of the Building, Nature, Excellency, and Government of the House of God
- John Dryden, Britannia Rediviva, on the birth of James Francis Edward Stuart
- George Wither, Divine Poems on the Ten Commandments
Births
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- February 7 - John Morgan, Welsh clergyman, scholar and poet
- April 2 - Lewis Theobald, English poet, playwright, translator and editor of Shakespeare
- May 21 - Alexander Pope, English poet
- June 3 - Leonard Welsted, English poet and "dunce" in Alexander Pope's writings
- September 6 - Laurence Eusden, English poet, Poet Laureate from 1718
- October 9 - Mary Collier, English poet and washerwoman
- Upendra Bhanja born either 1670 or this year, poet of Oriya Literature awarded the title "Kavi-Samrata" - "The Emperor of the Poets"
- William Meston, Scottish poet
Deaths
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