1685 in poetry
This article covers 1685 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Colonial America">Colonial American literature">Colonial America
- Cotton Mather, An Elegy on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America
Germany">German poetry">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">English poetry">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?"
- John 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, published anonymously
- Sir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously
- 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
- Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions
- Edmund Waller, Divine Poems
- Samuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymously
- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously published
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
- * The Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James II
- Aphra Behn:
- * A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign
- * A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II
- John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles II
- Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in April
Gujarat">Gujarati literature">Gujarat
Norway">Norwegian literature">Norway
- Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Taare-Offer, Norwegian
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 10 - Aaron Hill, English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
- June 30 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist
- December 17 - Thomas Tickell, English poet and man of letters
- Mary Barber, English poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
- Jane Brereton, English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
- William Diaper, English poet of the Augustan era
- William Harrison, English poet and diplomat
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 18 - Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon, Anglo-Irish poet
- June 16 - Anne Killigrew, English poet and painter
- July 1 - Nalan Xingde, Chinese Qing dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetry
- October 12 - Gerard Brandt, Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian
- Francesc Fontanella, Catalan poet, dramatist and priest