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1688 in literature
Summary
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of
1688
.
List of years in literature
(
table
)
…
1678
1679
1680
1681
1682
1683
1684
1685
1686
1687
1688
1689
1690
1691
1692
1693
1694
1695
1696
1697
1698
…
Art
Archaeology
Architecture
Literature
Music
Philosophy
Science
+...
Events
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February –
John Locke
returns to
England
in the escort of
Princess Mary
,
[1]
the same year that the first abstract of his seminal
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
appears in Leclerc's
Bibliotheque universelle
, although the work itself is not published until the following year.
December –
John Dryden
refuses to swear allegiance to the new monarchy after the
Glorious Revolution
and is dismissed as
Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom
. He is the only laureate not to die in office until the initiation of fixed-term appointments with
Andrew Motion
in
1999
.
[2]
unknown date
– The fourth, first illustrated edition of
John Milton
's
Paradise Lost
is published by
Jacob Tonson
in London. The illustrators include
John Baptist Medina
.
[3]
New books
edit
Prose
edit
David Abercromby
–
Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore
Etienne Baluze
–
Marca hispanica
Aphra Behn
:
The History of the Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker
Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave
[4]
The Fair Jilt: or, the Amours of Prince Tarquin and Miranda
Biblia de la București
(Bucharest Bible, first complete translation into Romanian)
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
–
Digression sur les anciens et les modernes
Jean de La Bruyère
–
Les Caractères
Ihara Saikaku
(井原 西鶴)
The Eternal Storehouse of Japan
Tales of Samurai Honor
Henry More
–
Divine Dialogues
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The Anatomy of an Equivalent
The Lady's New-Years Gift: or, Advice to a Daughter
(anonymous)
Drama
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John Crowne
–
Darius, King of Persia
Thomas D'Urfey
–
A Fool's Preferment
William Mountfort
–
The Injured Lovers
Thomas Shadwell
–
The Squire of Alsatia
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
–
El divino Narciso
Poetry
edit
See
1688 in poetry
Romances varios
Births
edit
January 29
–
Emanuel Swedenborg
, Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian. (died
1772
)
February –
Hermanus Angelkot junior
, Dutch pharmacist, poet and dramatist (died
1727
)
February 4
–
Pierre de Marivaux
, French playwright (died
1763
)
February 7
–
John Morgan
, Anglo-Welsh poet (died
1733
)
April 2
(baptised) –
Lewis Theobald
, English Shakespearean editor (died
1744
)
May 21
–
Alexander Pope
, English poet (died
1744
)
September 6
(baptised) –
Laurence Eusden
, English poet laureate (died
1730
)
November 13
–
Noël-Antoine Pluche
, French natural historian and priest (died
1761
)
November 15
(baptised) –
Charles Rivington
, English publisher (died
1742
)
December 24
–
Johann Bachstrom
, Polish theologian and writer (died
1742
)
Unknown date
–
Richard Bradley
, English scientific writer (died
1732
)
probable
–
William Meston
, Scottish poet (died
1745
)
[5]
Deaths
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March 15
–
Peter Walsh
, Irish politician and historian (born
1618
)
May 14
–
Antoine Furetière
, French satirist (born
1619
)
May 22
–
Johannes Andreas Quenstedt
, German theologian (born
1617
)
June 26
–
Ralph Cudworth
, English philosopher (born
1617
)
August 31
–
John Bunyan
, English writer and preacher (born
1628
)
September 22
–
François Bernier
, French physician and travel writer (born
1625
)
October 14
–
Joachim von Sandrart
, German/Dutch art historian (born
1606
)
November 16
–
Bengt Gottfried Forselius
, Swedish Estonian educational pioneer (born c. 1660)
November 26
–
Philippe Quinault
, French dramatist (born
1635
)
December 8
–
Thomas Flatman
, English poet and painter (born
1635
)
December 20
–
Thomas Jevon
, English playwright and
harlequin
(born
1652
)
References
edit
^
Oregon State University: John Locke chronology Archived 2013-07-12 at the
Wayback Machine
Accessed 26 April 2013
^
Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992).
The Chronology of British History
. London: Century Ltd. pp. 196–197.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2
.
^
"Illustrating Paradise Lost". Christ's College, Cambridge. Archived from the original on February 1, 2008.
^
"BBC – History – Aphra Behn".
www.bbc.co.uk
. Retrieved
26 March
2019
.
^
David Irving; John Aitken Carlyle; David Laing (1861).
The History of Scottish Poetry
. p. 252.