• Source: 1674 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).




Events






Works published






= France

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Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:
L'Art poétique, in imitation of the Ars Poetica of Horace, and very influential in French and English literature; Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism imitated Boileau's maxims; in four books: the first and last containing general precepts; the second, on the pastoral, elegy, ode, epigram and satire; the third, on epic and tragic poetry
Le Lutrin, a mock-heroic poem in four cantos, with two later added by the author
Translator, On the Sublime, from the Latin of Longinus; a second edition in 1693 also included certain critical reflections
Second Epistle
Third Epistle
Rene Rapin, Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, criticism, France; translated into English this year by Thomas Rymer




= Great Britain

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Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts, published anonymously (see Hudibras, the First Part 1663, Hudibras. The Second Part 1664, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part 1678; Hudibras. In Three Parts 1684)
Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs
John Milton, Paradise Lost: A poem in twelve books, the second edition, revised and expanded to 12 books, published in July; commendatory poems by "S.B." in Latin and Andrew Marvell in English (see also Paradise Lost 1667)
Thomas Rymer, translation, Reflections on Aristotles Treatise of Posie, published anonymously, criticism translated from Rene Rapin's Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, also published this year




= Other

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Thomas Hansen Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Song Choir"), first part (second part 1681), Denmark




Births


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

June 20 – Nicholas Rowe (died 1718), English Poet Laureate, dramatist and miscellaneous writer
July 17 – Isaac Watts (died 1748), English hymnist, called the "Father of English Hymnody"
September 11 – Elizabeth Singer Rowe (died 1737) English poet, novelist, devotional writer and playwright
October 9 (bapt.) – Ambrose Philips (died 1749), English poet and politician
Also – Mary Davys (died 1732), (probably) Irish-born poet and playwright




Deaths


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

February 22 – Jean Chapelain (born 1595), French poet and writer
June 14 – Marin le Roy de Gomberville (born 1600), French poet and novelist
October 10 – Thomas Traherne (born 1636), English poet and religious writer
October 15 – Robert Herrick – (born 1591), English poet
October 27 – Hallgrímur Pétursson (born 1614), one of Iceland's most famous poets and a clergyman
November 8 – John Milton (born 1608), English poet
Also:
Mehmed IV Giray (born 1610), poet and khan of the Crimean Khanate
Neşâtî (born unknown), Ottoman Sufi mystical poet




See also



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




References

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• Robert Herrick
• Paradise Lost
• Majapahit
• Ur-Ninurta
• Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
• Lê Thánh Tông
• Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Daftar penulis bacaan anak
• 1674 in poetry
• Metre (poetry)
• List of years in poetry
• 1674 in Sweden
• 1674 in literature
• Paradise Lost
• John Milton
• English poetry
• Hesperides (poetry collection)
• 1718 in literature