1695 in poetry

Events

Main article: 1695

Works

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Joseph Addison, A Poem to His Majesty
• Sir Richard Blackmore, Prince Arthur
• Colley Cibber, A Poem on the Death of Our Late Sovereign Lady, Queen Mary, on the death of Mary II
• John Dennis, The Court of Death, on the death of Mary II;
• John Dryden, "Parallel of Poetry and Painting", criticism; an essay prefacing Dryden's translation of Du Fresnoy's De Arte Graphica
• John Milton, The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton, edited by Patrick Hume
• Matthew Prior, An English Ballad: In answer to Mr. Despreaux's Pindaresque ode on the taking of Namure, "Despreaux" refers to Nicholas Boileau-Despreaux; in this edition the text of Despreaux's Ode sur la prise de Namur was given in French on pages opposite Prior's verse;
• Richard Steele, printed anonymously with author identified as "a gentleman of the army", The Procession: A poem on Her Majesties funeral
• Edward Ward, Female Policy Detected; or, The Arts of a Designing Woman Laid Open

Other languages

• Giuseppe Berneri, Meo Patacca or Roma in feste ne i Trionfi di Vienna ("Rome in jubilation for the Triumphs of Vienna"), Italy

Births

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

• April 8 – Johann Christian Günther (died 1723), German
• August 1 – Thomas Purney (died 1730), English clergyman and poet
• Also – Thomas Fitzgerald (died 1752), English

Deaths

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

• April 5 – George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (born 1633), English statesman, writer and politician
• April 13 – Jean de la Fontaine (born 1621), French poet and fable writer
• April 17 – Juana Inés de la Cruz (born 1651), self-taught Novohispanic scholar, nun, poet and writer
• April 23 – Henry Vaughan (born 1621), Welsh metaphysical poet and physician
• Also – Vaman Pandit (born 1608), Indian Marathi scholar 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. the preface contains a discussion on the genre of the ode, Dennis' longestPaul, Harry Gilbert, [https://books.google.com/books?id=vSobfr0UyF8C&dq=Dennis+1701+%22Epistle+dedicatory+to+the%22&pg=PA140 ''John Dennis: His Life and Criticism''], p 175, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
3. [[Mark Van Doren]], ''John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry'', p 52, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")