1674 in poetry
This article covers 1674 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
France">French poetry">France
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:
- * L'Art poétique, in imitation of the Ars Poetica of Horace, and very influential in French and English literature; Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism imitated Boileau's maxims; in four books: the first and last containing general precepts; the second, on the pastoral, elegy, ode, epigram and satire; the third, on epic and tragic poetry
- * Le Lutrin, a mock-heroic poem in four cantos, with two later added by the author
- * Translator, On the Sublime, from the Latin of Longinus; a second edition in 1693 also included certain critical reflections
- * Second Epistle
- * Third Epistle
- Rene Rapin, Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, criticism, France; translated into English this year by Thomas Rymer
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts, published anonymously
- Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs
- John Milton, Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books, the second edition, revised and expanded to 12 books, published in July; commendatory poems by "S.B." in Latin and Andrew Marvell in English
- Thomas Rymer, translation, Reflections on Aristotles Treatise of Posie, published anonymously, criticism translated from Rene Rapin's Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, also published this year
Other
- Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor, first part, Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 20 - Nicholas Rowe, English Poet Laureate, dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- July 17 - Isaac Watts, English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"
- September 11 - Elizabeth Singer Rowe English poet, novelist, devotional writer and playwright
- October 9 - Ambrose Philips, English poet and politician
- Also - Mary Davys, Irish-born poet and playwright
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 22 - Jean Chapelain, French poet and writer
- June 14 - Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist
- October 10 - Thomas Traherne, English poet and religious writer
- October 15 - Robert Herrick -, English poet
- October 27 - Hallgrímur Pétursson, one of Iceland's most famous poets and a clergyman
- November 8 - John Milton, English poet
- Also:
- * Mehmed IV Giray, poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
- * Neşâtî, Ottoman Sufi mystical poet