1693 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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

Britain

• Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery^[1]
• 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;^[1] 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^[2]
  • Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses^[2]
  • Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses^[2]
  • Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad^[2]
• John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others^[1]
• Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money^[1]
• Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
• Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord^[1]

Other languages

• Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry^[3]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Hildebrand Jacob, English poet (died 1739)

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (born 1621), Polish poet and member of the noble Szlachta class
• September 9 – Ihara Saikaku (born 1642), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world") genre of prose fiction
• December 13 – Dosoftei (born 1624), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator

See also

• List of years in poetry
• List of years in literature
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Poetry

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 96, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
3. Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p. 193, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")