1693 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum
Works
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- Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709; sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
- * Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
- * Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses
- * Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses
- * Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad
- John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others
- Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money
- Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
- Samuel Wesley, ''The Life of Our Blessed Lord''
Other languages
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 8 - Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Polish poet and member of the noble Szlachta class
- September 9 - Ihara Saikaku, Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyo-zōshi genre of prose fiction
- December 13 - Dosoftei, Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator