1683 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Philip Ayres, Emblems of Love, later reissued under the title Cupids Addresse to the Ladies
• John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus: A pastoral history, posthumously published; edited by Izaak Walton
• Thomas D'Urfey, A New Collection of Songs and Poems
• Thomas Flatman, On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert died November 29 of this year
• Robert Gould, Presbytery Rough-Drawn, published anonymously
• John Mason, Spiritual Songs; or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God upon Several Occasions, published anonymously
• John Oldham, Poems, and Translations
• Thomas Shipman, Carolina; or, Loyal Poems

Other

• Benjamin Keach, Sion in Distress, or The Groans of the Protestant Church, English Colonial America
• Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Geistliche Lieder [...], German hymns; published in Rudolstadt

Births

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

• March 1 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (died 1706), Indian-born Monpa Buddhist religious leader and Tibetan poet
• May 20 – Elijah Fenton (died 1730), English poet
• July 3 – Edward Young (died 1765), English poet

Deaths

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

• December 9 – John Oldham (born 1653), English satirical poet and translator
• Katherine Austen (born 1629), English diarist and poet

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press
3. Grun, Bernard, ''The Timetables of History'', third edition, 1991 (original book, 1946), page 328