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1674 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1671
1672
1673
1674
1675
1676
1677
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

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Works published

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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[1]
    • Third Epistle
  • Rene Rapin, Reflexions sur la Poetique d' Aristote, criticism, France; translated into English this year by Thomas Rymer[2]

Other

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Births

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

Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 92, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
  2. ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6