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1686 in poetry

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Works published

  • Sarah Fyge Egerton (later Sarah Field), The Female Advocate, published anonymously in reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're 1682
  • Thomas Flatman, A Song for St Caecilia's Day
  • Anne Killigrew, Poems by Mrs Anne Killigrew
  • Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler, Jungferlicher Zeitvertreiber (Pastime for Virgins)
  • Matsuo Bashō publishes one of his best-remembered haiku:
  • furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto an ancient pond / a frog jumps in / the splash of water [1686]

    Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • Allan Ramsay (died 1758), Scottish poet
  • Andrew Michael Ramsay (died 1743), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France
  • Deaths

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  • Shimonokōbe Chōryū (born 1624), Japanese poet-scholar
  • References

    1686 in poetry Wikipedia