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1687 in poetry

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Events

  • William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained

    • Great Britain

  • John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions, published anonymously
  • John Dryden:
  • The Hind and the Panther, published anonymously (see also the work by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, below)
  • A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
  • Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes
  • John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry
  • Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)
  • Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages

    • Other

  • John Cotton II, Poem Occasioned by the Death of [...] John Alden, English Colonial American (Massachusetts)
  • Benjamin Harris, compiler, The New England Primer, English Colonial American

    • Births

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

  • Henry Carey (died 1743), English poet, dramatist and song-writer
  • Mary Chandler (died 1745), English; she left several poems
  • Paolo Antonio Rolli (died 1765), Italian librettist and poet

    • Deaths

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

  • Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
  • Sor Marcela de San Felix (born 1605), daughter of Lope de Vega, Spanish
  • Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
  • Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
  • Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
  • George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
  • Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
  • Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet

    • References

    1687 in poetry Wikipedia
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