Japanese poet
Ihara Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the
Sumiyoshi-taisha (shrine) at
Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses
Samuel Butler, Hudibras. In Three Parts, published anonymously (See also Hudibras, the First Part1663, Hudibras. The Second Part1664, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts1674, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part1678)[1]
Translator, The Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin's Discourse of Pastorals Done into English, translated from
Rene Rapin, Treatise de carmine pastorali[1]
Translator, The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace, the only complete translation of
Horace's poems until that of
Philip Francis (see
1743,
1747)[1]
Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse, criticism in verse form, a second edition was also published this year[1]
John Dryden and
Jacob Tonson, editors, Miscellany Poems, first in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson (see also Sylvae
1685, Examen Poeticum1693, Annual Miscellany1694, Poetical Miscellaneis: Fifth Part1704; Sixth Part1709)[1]
Thomas D'Urfey, The Malcontent: a Satyr, published anonymously; a sequel to The Progress of Honesty1681[1]
John Norris, Poems and Discourses. Occasionally written[1]
John Oldham, The Works of Mr John Oldham, posthumously published[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Japanese poet
Ihara Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the
Sumiyoshi-taisha (shrine) at
Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses
Samuel Butler, Hudibras. In Three Parts, published anonymously (See also Hudibras, the First Part1663, Hudibras. The Second Part1664, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts1674, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part1678)[1]
Translator, The Idylliums of Theocritus, with Rapin's Discourse of Pastorals Done into English, translated from
Rene Rapin, Treatise de carmine pastorali[1]
Translator, The Odes, Satyrs, and Epistles of Horace, the only complete translation of
Horace's poems until that of
Philip Francis (see
1743,
1747)[1]
Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, An Essay on Translated Verse, criticism in verse form, a second edition was also published this year[1]
John Dryden and
Jacob Tonson, editors, Miscellany Poems, first in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson (see also Sylvae
1685, Examen Poeticum1693, Annual Miscellany1694, Poetical Miscellaneis: Fifth Part1704; Sixth Part1709)[1]
Thomas D'Urfey, The Malcontent: a Satyr, published anonymously; a sequel to The Progress of Honesty1681[1]
John Norris, Poems and Discourses. Occasionally written[1]
John Oldham, The Works of Mr John Oldham, posthumously published[1]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: