1693 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696

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

Births

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Deaths

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See also

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")
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