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

Events

Works published

Colonial America

• Cotton Mather, An Elegy [...] on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America (Massachusetts)^[1]

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?"^[2]
• 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,^[3] published anonymously^[2]
• Sir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously (see Gondibert 1651)^[2]
• 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)^[2]
• Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions^[2]
• Edmund Waller, Divine Poems^[2]
• Samuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymously^[2]
• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously published^[4]

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^[2]
  • The Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James II^[2]
• Aphra Behn:
  • A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign^[2]
  • A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II^[2]
• John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles II^[2]
• Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in April^[2]

Gujarat

• Premanand Bhatt, Nalākhyān, Gujarati

Norway

• Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Taare-Offer, Norwegian

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] 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 "[year] 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