Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum
Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery
John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709; sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses
Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses
Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad
John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others
Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money
Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Hildebrand Jacob, English poet (died 1739)
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (born 1621), Polish poet and member of the noble Szlachta class
September 9 – Ihara Saikaku (born 1642), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world") genre of prose fiction
December 13 – Dosoftei (born 1624), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
