1694 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Matsuo Bashō completes the writing of Oku no Hosomichi.
Works
- Joseph Addison, An Account of the Greatest English Poets
- 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
- 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
- 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; includes Dryden's translation from the original Latin of the third book of Virgil's Georgic
- 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
- Charles Hopkins, ''Epistolary Poems''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 20 - Hans Adolph Brorson, Danish Pietist bishop and hymnodist
- September 22 - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and poet
- November 21 - Voltaire, born François-Marie Arouet, French Enlightenment writer, poet, essayist and philosopher
- Approximate date - James Bramston, English poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- November 28 - Matsuo Bashō, Japanese Edo period poet