Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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, (later Baron 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 anonymouslySir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously (see Gondibert 1651)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 (see also Miscellany Poems 1684, Examen Poeticum 1693, Annual Miscellany 1694, Poetical Miscellanies: Fifth Part 1704, Sixth Part 1709)Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several OccasionsEdmund Waller, Divine PoemsSamuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymouslyJohn Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously publishedEnglish verses on the death of Charles II and coronation of James II
Charles II of England died on February 6; James II of England was crowned on April 23:
Edmund Arwaker:The VisionThe Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James IIAphra Behn:A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late SovereignA Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James IIJohn Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles IIThomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in AprilEmilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German:Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes, hymns; published in RudolstadtTägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abendopfer, hymns; published in RudolstadtCotton Mather, An Elegy [...] on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America (Massachusetts)Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 10 – Aaron Hill (died 1750), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writerJune 30 – John Gay (died 1732), English poet and dramatistDecember 17 – Thomas Tickell (died 1740), English poet and man of lettersMary Barber (died 1755), English poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circleJane Brereton (died 1740), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's MagazineWilliam Diaper (died 1717), English poet of the Augustan eraWilliam Harrison (died 1713), English poet and diplomatBirth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 18 – Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (born 1633), Anglo-Irish poetJune 16 – Anne Killigrew (born 1660), English poetJuly 1 – Nalan Xingde (born 1655), Chinese Qing Dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetryOctober 12 – Gerard Brandt (born 1626), Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historianFrancesc Fontanella (born 1622), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest