1699 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- English poet Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in France, mentions in letters that he has been dining with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet whose poems Prior had lampooned in 1695 and would again satirize in 1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote:
Works
- Samuel Garth, The Dispensary
- John Hopkins, Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall of Man
- Thomas Hansen Kingo, Psalmebog, with 85 of his own compositions; still used in some parts of Denmark and Norway
- Thomas Traherne, ''A Serious and Pathetical Contemplation of the Mercies of God''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 13 - Alexander Ross, Scottish poet
- April 17 - Robert Blair, Scottish poet
- August 13 - John Dyer, Anglo-Welsh poet
- Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan, Indian, Urdu-language poet
- Christopher Pitt, English poet and translator
- Approximate date - Leonard Howard, English clergyman and "poet laureate in the King's Bench"
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 22 - Hans Erasmus Aßmann, German noble, statesman and poet
- November 23 - Joseph Beaumont, English clergyman, academic and poet