1688 in poetry

1688 in poetry

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Events

* Thomas Shadwell made British Poet Laureate

Works published

* John Dryden, "Britannia Rediviva

Births

* May 21 — Alexander Pope (died 1744), English poet
* Laurence Eusden
* Leonard Welsted

Deaths

* John Bunyan
* Thomas Flatman

ee also

*Poetry
* List of years in poetry


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