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