1674 in poetry
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Works published
France
- Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Åuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:
- L'Art poétique, in imitation of the Ars Poetica of Horace, and very influential in French and English literature; Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism imitated Boileau's maxims; in four books: the first and last containing general precepts; the second, on the pastoral, elegy, ode, epigram and satire; the third, on epic and tragic poetry
- Le Lutrin, a mock-heroic poem in four cantos, with two later added by the author
- Translator, On the Sublime, from the Latin of Longinus; a second edition in 1693 also included certain critical reflections
- Second Epistle[1]
- Third Epistle
- Rene Rapin, Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, criticism, France; translated into English this year by Thomas Rymer[2]
Great Britain
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts, published anonymously (see Hudibras, the First Part 1663, Hudibras. The Second Part 1664, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part 1678; Hudibras. In Three Parts 1684)[2]
- Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs[2]
- John Milton, Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books, the second edition, revised and expanded to 12 books, published in July; commendatory poems by "S.B." in Latin and Andrew Marvell in English (see also Paradise Lost 1667)[2]
- Thomas Rymer, translation, Reflections on Aristotles Treatise of Posie, published anonymously, criticism translated from Rene Rapin's Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, also published this year[2]
Other
- Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Song Choir"), first part (second part 1681), Denmark
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 20 â Nicholas Rowe (died 1718), English Poet Laureate, dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- July 17 â Isaac Watts (died 1748), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"
- September 11 â Elizabeth Singer Rowe (died 1737) English poet, novelist, devotional writer and playwright
- October 9 (bapt.) â Ambrose Philips (died 1749), English poet and politician
- Also â Mary Davys (died 1732), (probably) Irish-born poet and playwright
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 22 â Jean Chapelain (born 1595), French poet and writer
- June 14 â Marin le Roy de Gomberville (born 1600), French poet and novelist
- October 10 â Thomas Traherne (born 1636), English poet and religious writer
- October 15 â Robert Herrick â (born 1591), English poet
- October 27 â HallgrÃmur Pétursson (born 1614), one of Iceland's most famous poets and a clergyman
- November 8 â John Milton (born 1608), English poet
- Also:
- Mehmed IV Giray (born 1610), poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
- NeÅâtî (born unknown), Ottoman Sufi mystical poet
