Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Matsuo Bashō, Oku no Hosomichi (奥の細道, "The Narrow Road to the Interior" or "The Narrow Road to the Deep North") is published posthumously. This poetic travel diary chronicles a journey to the Northern Provinces of Honshū undertaken in 1689.
Edward Bysshe, The Art of English Poetry (criticism)
Daniel Defoe:
The Mock-Mourners: A satyr, by way of an elegy on King William
Reformation of Manners: A satyr, published anonymously
The Spanish Descent
John Dennis, The Monument, a memorial poem on the death of William III on March 8
George Farquhar, Love and Business, verse and prose
William King - De Origine Mali (in Latin)
Mary Mollineux, Fruits of Retirement; or, Miscellaneous Poems, Moral and Divine
Nicholas Noyes, "A Prefatory Poem", the preface for Cotton Mather's Magnalia Christi Americana, English Colonial America
John Pomfret, Miscellany Poems on Several Occasions
Sir Charles Sedley, Miscellaneous Works (posthumous)
Joseph Stennett, A Poem to the Memory of His Late Majesty William the Third
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
June 26 – Philip Doddridge (died 1751), English Nonconformist preacher and writer
August 26 – Judith Madan, née Cowper (died 1781), English poet
October 24 – Yokoi Yayū 横井 也有, born Yokoi Tokitsura (横井 時般), taking pseudonym Tatsunojō (died 1783), Japanese samurai, scholar of Kokugaku and haikai poet
Also – Kenrick Prescot (died 1779), English poet
Approximate date
David Mallet (died 1765), Scottish poet and dramatist
Francis Williams (died 1770), black Jamaican scholar and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Late November – John Pomfret (born 1667), English poet and clergyman
December 18 (bur.) – Laurens Bake (born 1629), Dutch poet
