1682 in poetry

Works published

• Matthew Coppinger, Poems, Songs and Lover-Verses, upon Several Subjects
• Thomas Creech, translator, De Natura Rerum, published anonymously; translated from the Latin of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura
• John Dryden:
• * Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S., pointed at Thomas Shadwell
• * The Medall: A satyre against sedition, a satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper ; commendatory poem by Nahum Tate; see Samual Pordage's response, below
• * Religio Laici; or, A Laymans Faith
• Thomas D'Urfey, Butler's Ghost; or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part, a continuation of Samuel Butler's Hudibras
• Robert Gould, Love Given O're; or, A Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy of Woman, published anonymously
• Cotton Mather, A Poem Dedicated to the Memory of Urian Oakes, English Colonial America
• Samuel Pordage, The Medal Revers'd: A satyre against persecution, a response to John Dryden's The Medall
• Elkanah Settle, Absalom Senior; or, Achitophel Transpros'd, published anonymously; a reply to the first part of John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel 1681
• Thomas Shadwell, The Medal of John Bayes: A satyr against folly and knavery, published anonymously; an answer to John Dryden's The Medall
• John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, also known as the "Earl of Mulgrave", An Essay upon Poetry, published anonymously; in verse; an attack on the late John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
• Nahum Tate, adaptor, and others, The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel, a sequel to Absalom and Achitophel of 1681 by John Dryden and, like that poem, directed against Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth; mostly written by Tate

Births

• Vijaya Dasa, Indian devotional poet
• Jane Wiseman, English actress, poet and playwright

Deaths

• May 5 - Nishiyama Sōin 西山宗因, born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豊, Japanese early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga poet who founded the Danrin school of haikai poetry