Overview of the events of 1685 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
Colonial America
- Cotton Mather, An Elegy on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America (Massachusetts)
Germany
- Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German:
- Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes, hymns; published in Rudolstadt
- Tägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abendopfer, hymns; published in Rudolstadt
Great Britain
- Henry Bold, translator, Latine Songs, with their English: and Poems, includes "Chevy Chase", a ballad, and Sir John Suckling's poem "Why so pale and wan fond lover?"
- John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), La Muse de Cavalier; or, An Apology for such gentleman as make poetry their diversion, not their business in a letter by a scholar of Mars to one of Apollo, published anonymously
- Sir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously (see Gondibert 1651)
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, Sylvae; or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, the second in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson; has translations from Virgil, Lucretius, Theocritus and Horace, mostly by Dryden (see also Miscellany Poems 1684, Examen Poeticum 1693, Annual Miscellany 1694, Poetical Miscellanies: Fifth Part 1704, Sixth Part 1709)
- Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions
- Edmund Waller, Divine Poems
- Samuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymously
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously published
English verses on the death of Charles II and coronation of James II
Charles II of England died on February 6; James II of England was crowned on April 23:
- Edmund Arwaker:
- The Vision
- The Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James II
- Aphra Behn:
- A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign
- A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II
- John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles II
- Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in April
Gujarat
Norway
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Taare-Offer, Norwegian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- February 10 – Aaron Hill (died 1750), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
- June 30 – John Gay (died 1732), English poet and dramatist
- December 17 – Thomas Tickell (died 1740), English poet and man of letters
- Mary Barber (died 1755), English poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
- Jane Brereton (died 1740), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
- William Diaper (died 1717), English poet of the Augustan era
- William Harrison (died 1713), English poet and diplomat
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- January 18 – Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (born 1633), Anglo-Irish poet
- June 16 – Anne Killigrew (born 1660), English poet and painter
- July 1 – Nalan Xingde (born 1655), Chinese Qing dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetry
- October 12 – Gerard Brandt (born 1626), Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian
- Francesc Fontanella (born 1622), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest
See also
Notes
- Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983, 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830), p 4, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
- Web page titled "John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester (1647 - 1680)" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved April 11, 2009. Archived August 8, 2010, at the Wayback Machine 2009-05-02.