1687 in poetry

Events

• William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions, published anonymously
• John Dryden:
  • The Hind and the Panther, published anonymously (see also the work by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, below)
  • A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
• Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes
• John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry
• Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)
• Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages

Other

• John Cotton II, Poem Occasioned by the Death of [...] John Alden, English Colonial American (Massachusetts)
• Benjamin Harris, compiler, The New England Primer, English Colonial American

Births

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

• June 13 – Paolo Rolli (died 1765), Italian librettist, poet and translator
• c. August 26 – Henry Carey (suicide 1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
• Mary Chandler (died 1745), English poet and milliner

Deaths

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

• March 28 – Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
• April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
• April 28 – Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
• May 6 – Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet
• September 1 – Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
• October 21 – Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
• Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer

Notes

References

1. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce. (1971). "Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660–1830)". Franklin, Burt.
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press