1689 in poetry
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Events
- May 26 â Matsuo BashÅ begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior") on which he visits Kisakata, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands.
- Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate of England.[1]
Works published
Great Britain
- Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year[2]
- Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions[2]
- Robert Gould, Poems[2]
- Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year[2]
Other
- Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 25 â Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
- May 3 (bapt.) â William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
- May 15 â Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
- November 18 â Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (died 1752), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January â William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
- April 16 â Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet[2]
- August 21 â William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
- October 4 â Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic, burned at the stake
- December 13 â Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
- date unknown â Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer
