Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

• February 16 - Julije Balović completes transcription of Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events" (Serbian: Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi).
• November - Nahum Tate becomes Poet Laureate of England.

Works published

• Richard Ames:
  • The Double Descent, published anonymously^[1]
  • The Jacobite Conventicle, published anonymously^[1]
  • Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness, anonymous reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're of 1682 (see also Sylvia's Revenge 1688)^[1]
• Richard Baxter, translator, Paraphrase on the Psalms of David^[1]
• John Crowne, translator, The Daeneids, translation of Le Lutrin from the original French of Boileau^[2]
• John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously^[1]
• John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics, Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end [...]"^[3]
• Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations,^[1] in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry^[4]
• Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology^[1]
• Matthew Prior, An Ode in Imitation of the Second Ode of the Third Book of Horace^[1]
• William Walsh, Letters and Poems, amorous and Gallant, published anonymously^[1]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 29 - John Byrom (died 1763), English poet
• November 6 - Louis Racine (died 1763), French poet
• November 21 - Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni (died 1768), Italian poet
• Li E (died 1752), Chinese poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 21 - Ermes di Colorêt (born 1622), Friulian courtier and poet
• November 19 - Thomas Shadwell (born c. 1642), English poet and playwright, Poet Laureate from 1689