Overview of the events of 1689 in literature
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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1689.
Events
- April 30 – Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal in England.
- April/May – Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.
- May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North).
New books
Prose
- Richard Cox – Hibernia Anglicana
- George Hickes – Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae
- John Locke
- Two Treatises of Government (anonymous)
- A Letter Concerning Toleration (as by 'P.A.P.O.I.L.A.', in Latin)
- An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (dated 1690)
- John Selden (died 1654) – 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 Carlile – The Fortune Hunters
- Sor Juana – Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)
- Nathaniel Lee – The Massacre of Paris
- William Mountfort – The Successful Strangers
- Thomas Shadwell – Bury Fair
- Nahum Tate – Dido and Aeneas
- Matthew Taubman – London's Great Jubilee
Births
- January 18 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)
- January 21 – Daniel Henchman, Colonial American bookseller and publisher (died 1761)
- May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English poet and letter-writer (died 1762)
- July 9 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773)
- August 19 (bapt.) – 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
- Shadwell, Thomas (1927). Prefatory note. The text. Introduction. Chronology. Genealogical table. A sermon. The sullen lovers. The royal shepherdesse. The humorists. Fortune Press. p. ccliv.
- Hammond, Eugene (2016). Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-In. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 61. ISBN 978-1-61149-607-9. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
- Montesquieu (1977). The Spirit of Laws: A Compendium of the First English Edition. University of California Press. p. 3. ISBN 978-0-520-03455-6. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- Richetti, John, ed. (1996). The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel. Cambridge University Press. p. 92. ISBN 978-0-521-42945-0. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
- "BBC - History - Aphra Behn". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-26.