1682 in poetry

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Events[]

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Works published[]

• , Poems, Songs and Lover-Verses, upon Several Subjects^[1]
• Thomas Creech, translator, De Natura Rerum, published anonymously; translated from the Latin of Lucretius's De Rerum Natura^[1]
• John Dryden:
  • Mac Flecknoe; or, A satyr upon the True-Blew-Protestant Poet, T.S., pointed at Thomas Shadwell^[1]
  • The Medall: A satyre against sedition, a satire on Anthony Ashley Cooper (a target of the author's 1681 satire, Absalom and Achitophel); commendatory poem by Nahum Tate; see Samual Pordage's response, below^[1]
  • Religio Laici; or, A Laymans Faith^[1]
• Thomas D'Urfey, Butler's Ghost; or, Hudibras. The Fourth Part, a continuation of Samuel Butler's Hudibras (Part 1 published in 1663)^[1]
• Robert Gould, Love Given O're; or, A Satyr Against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy of Woman, published anonymously (see also Sarah Egerton, The Female Advocate 1686 in poetry, , Sylvia's Revenge 1688, and Ames' Sylvia's Complaint, of Her Sexes Unhappiness 1692)^[1]
• Cotton Mather, A Poem Dedicated to the Memory of [...] Urian Oakes, English Colonial America (Massachusetts)^[2]
• Samuel Pordage, The Medal Revers'd: A satyre against persecution, a response to John Dryden's The Medall (see above)
• Elkanah Settle, Absalom Senior; or, Achitophel Transpros'd, published anonymously; a reply to the first part of John Dryden's Absalom and Achitophel 1681^[1]
• Thomas Shadwell, The Medal of John Bayes: A satyr against folly and knavery, published anonymously; an answer to John Dryden's The Medall (see above; see also Mac Flecknoe, above)^[1]
• John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, also known as the "Earl of Mulgrave", An Essay upon Poetry, published anonymously; in verse; an attack on the late John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester^[1]
• Nahum Tate, adaptor, and others, The Second Part of Absalom and Achitophel, a sequel to Absalom and Achitophel of 1681 by John Dryden and, like that poem, directed against Anthony Ashley Cooper, earl of Shaftesbury and James Scott, Duke of Monmouth; mostly written by Tate^[1]

Births[]

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

• Vijaya Dasa (died 1755), Indian devotional poet
• Jane Wiseman (died 1717), English actress, poet and playwright

Deaths[]

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• May 5 – Nishiyama Sōin 西山宗因, born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豊 (born 1605), Japanese early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga (comical renga) poet who founded the Danrin ("talkative forest") school of haikai poetry

See also[]

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

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