1693 in poetry explained
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Events
- John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum
Works
- Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery[1]
- John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709;[1] sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
- Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses[2]
- Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad[2]
- John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others[1]
- Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money[1]
- Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
- Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord[1]
Other languages
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes and References
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- [Mark Van Doren]
- [Mark Van Doren]