1689 in poetry

Events

• May 26 – Matsuo Bashō 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.

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year
• Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions
• Robert Gould, Poems
• Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year

Other

• Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America

Births

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

• February 25 – Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
• May 3 (bapt.) – William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
• May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
• November 18 – 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 – William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
• April 16 – Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet
• August 21 – William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
• October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic, burned at the stake
• December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
• date unknown – Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer

Notes

References

1. (1999). "The Hutchinson Factfinder". Helicon.
2. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
3. Ludwig, Richard M.; Nault, Clifford A., Jr. (1986). ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983''. New York: Oxford University Press.