This article covers 1690 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, published anonymously (see The Reasons of Mr Bays Changing his Religion 1688)Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Thomas D'Urfey: Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster New Poems John Glanvill, Some Odes of Horace Imitated with Relation to his Majesty and the Times Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, published anonymously, on William II of England's victories in Ireland Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered, a fragment, possibly intended by Waller to turn Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maides Tragedy into a comedy; with other poems Edward Ward, The School of Politicks; or, The Humours of a Coffee-House, anonymous
Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Christian Falster (died 1752), Dutch poet and philologist 1689/90 – Susanna Highmore (died 1750), English poet
Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: Peter Folger (born 1617), English-born American poet and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin Keshav Pandit (born unknown), Shivaji's religious chief, Sanskrit scholar and poet Franciscus Plante (born 1613), Dutch poet and chaplain Wang Wu (born 1632), Chinese painter and poet
See also
Poetry 17th century in poetry 17th century in literature
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