1691 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Richard Ames:
• * The Female Fire-Ships: A satyr against whoring, published anonymously
• * Islington-Wells; or, The Threepenny-academy, published anonymously
• Benjamin Keach, Spiritual Melody
• Nahum Tate, Characters of Vertue and Vice, a verse paraphrase of Joseph Hall's Characters of Vertues and Vices, a 1608 prose work
• Edward Ward, The Poet's Ramble After Riches, published anonymously
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems, &c. on Several Occasions: with Valentinian, a Tragedy, London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, posthumously published

  Births

• Seán Clárach Mac Domhnaill, Irish poet

  Deaths

• March 1 – Sultan Bahu, Muslim Sufi saint and poet
• October 10 – Isaac de Benserade, French poet
• Mathias Balen, Dutch historian and poet
• Probable date – Samuel Pordage, English poet and cleric