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Events

• Guru Gobind Singh becomes guru at the age of nine years

Works published

English

• Charles Cotton:
  • Burlesque upon Burlesque; or, The Scoffer Scoft, published anonymously
  • The Scoffer Scoft, the second part of the above Burlesque
• Thomas Hobbes, translator, The Odyssey of Homer (the author's translation of the Iliad was published in 1676)
• Richard Leigh, Poems, upon Several Occasions, and, to Several Persons
• Edward Phillips, editorTheatrum Poetarum; or, A Compleat Collection of the Poets of all Ages

Other

• René Le Bossu, Traité du Poeme Epique, a systematic description of epic poetry, based on Aristotle; the book was very favorably received; criticism, France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• February – Ignjat Đurđević (died 1737), Croatian poet and translator
• February 26 (bapt.) – Abel Evans (died 1737), English clergyman, academic and poet
• August 31 – Elizabeth Thomas (died 1731), English poet
• September 2 – William Somervile (died 1742), English poet
• October 17 (bapt.) – Samuel Cobb (died 1716), English poet
• Also:
  • Cille Gad (died 1711), Norwegian female poet and academic
  • Jamie Macpherson (died 1700), Scottish outlaw, famed for his lament
  • Vakhtang VI of Kartli (died 1737), Kartli statesman, legislator, scholar, critic, translator and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

• April 24 – Pierre Perrin (born 1620), French poet and libretto composer
• September 12 – Girolamo Graziani (born 1604), Italian poet
• November 14 – Johannes Khuen (born 1606), Bavarian German priest, poet and composer
• Also – Emanuele Tesauro (born 1592), Italian rhetorician, dramatist, Marinist poet and historian
• Approximate date – William Mercer (born 1605), Scottish poet and army officer

See also

• Poetry
• 17th century in poetry
• 17th century in literature
• Restoration literature

Notes

1. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Paul, Harry Gilbert, John Dennis: his life and criticism, page 159, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010

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