1689 in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1689.

Events

May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow road to the interior).

Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal in England.

Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.

Prose

Richard Cox – Hibernia Anglicana

George Hickes – Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae

John Locke

Two Treatises of Government

A Letter Concerning Toleration

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (dated 1690)

John Selden (posthumously) – Table Talk

Johann Weikhard von Valvasor – The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain)

Drama

Aphra Behn – The Widow Ranter

James Carlisle – The Fortune Hunters, or Two Fools Well Met

John Crowne – The English Friar, or the Town Sparks

James Farewell – The Irish Hudibras

Sor Juana – Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)

Nathaniel Lee – The Massacre of Paris

Thomas Shadwell - Bury Fair

Births

January 18 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)

May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, poet and letter-writer (died 1762)

July 9 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773)

August 19 – Samuel Richardson, English novelist (died 1761)

Deaths

January – William Chamberlayne, English poet and playwright (born c. 1619)

February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch-born collector of manuscripts (born 1618)

April 16 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist, poet and novelist (born 1640)

August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish soldier and poet (killed in battle, born c. 1661)

November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet and hymn-writer (born 1619)

December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet (born c. 1628)

Unknown date – Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian-language author (born c. 1630)

References

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