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Events

• May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior") on which he visits Kisakata, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands.
• Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate of England.

Works published

Great Britain

• Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year
• Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions
• Robert Gould, Poems
• Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year

Other

• Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February 25 – Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
• May 3 (bapt.) – William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
• May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
• November 18 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (died 1752), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• January – William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
• April 16 – Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet
• August 21 – William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
• October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic, burned at the stake
• December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
• date unknown – Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. The Hutchinson Factfinder. Helicon. 1999. ISBN 1-85986-000-1.
2. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
3. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A., Jr. (1986). Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983. New York: Oxford University Press.

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