1698 in poetry

Events

Works

• Aphra Behn - Poetical Remains
• John Hopkins
• * The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin
• * The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty

  Births

• January 3 - Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, Italian poet and opera librettist
• January 10? - Richard Savage, English poet
• March 22 - John Ellis, English scrivener and poet
• May 8 - Henry Baker, English naturalist, poet and sign-language developer
• July 19 - Johann Jakob Bodmer, German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
• Approximate date - Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair, Scottish Gaelic poet

  Deaths

• January - Dáibhí Ó Bruadair, Irish language poet
• February 28 - Nicolò Minato, Italian poet, librettist and impresario
• September 3 - Sir Robert Howard, English playwright, poet and brother-in-law of John Dryden