1674 in poetry explained
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Works published
- 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
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras. The First and Second Parts, published anonymously (see Hudibras, the First Part 1663, Hudibras. The Second Part 1664, Hudibras. The Third and Last Part 1678; Hudibras. In Three Parts 1684)[2]
- Thomas Flatman, Poems and Songs[2]
- 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)[2]
- 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[2]
Other
Births
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Deaths
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See also
Notes and References
- [Mark Van Doren]
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
