1694 in poetry

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Events

• Matsuo Bashō completes the writing of Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior").

Works

• Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets ^[1]
• Edmund Arwaker, An Epistle to Monsieur Boileau, inviting his Muse to forsake the French interest and celebrate the King of England, verse addressed to Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, reflecting the high esteem the French poet had in England at a time when the French government was considered a dangerous enemy ^{[2] [3]}
• Sir Thomas Pope Blount, De Re Poetica; or, Remarks upon Poetry, with Characters and Censures of the most considerable poets, whether Ancient or Modern, Extracted out of the Best and Choicest Critics , an anthology of criticism ^[4]
• Isabella Correa, translation of Il pastor fido into Spanish
• John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, The Annual Miscellany: for the Year 1694, the fourth in a series published by Tonson from 1684–1709; sometimes referred to as "Dryden's third Miscellany or "Tonson's third Miscellany or just "the third Miscellany; ^[2] includes Dryden's translation from the original Latin of the third book of Virgil's Georgic ^[5]
• Charles Gildon, editor, Chorus Poetarum; or, Poems on Several Occasions, an anthology including work by Aphra Behn, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir John Denham, Sir George Etherege and Andrew Marvell ^[2]
• Charles Hopkins, Epistolary Poems ^[2]

Births

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

• June 20 – Hans Adolph Brorson (died 1764), Danish Pietist bishop and hymnodist
• September 22 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (died 1773), English statesman and poet
• November 21 – Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet (died 1778), French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
• Approximate date – James Bramston (died 1743), English poet

Deaths

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

• November 28 – Matsuo Bashō (born 1644), Japanese Edo period poet

See also

• Poetry portal

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Poetry

Notes

1. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 246, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
3. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), p. 20, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN   978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
4. Clark, p. 16, retrieved via Google Books on February 13, 2010
5. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 100, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")