1688 in literature

1688 in literature

The year 1688 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

*John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle
*Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's "Paradise Lost"
*First printing of John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"

New books

*David Abercromby - "Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore"
*Etienne Baluze - "Marca hispanica"
*Aphra Behn:
** "The History of the Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker"
** "Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave"
*The "Bucharest Bible" - "Biblia de la Bucureşti", first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
*Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - "Digression sur les anciens et les modernes"
* Ihara Saikaku
**"The Eternal Storehouse of Japan"
**"Tales of Samurai Honor"
*Henry More - "Divine Dialogues"
*George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - "The Anatomy of an Equivalent"

New drama

*John Crowne - "Darius, King of Persia"
*William Mountfort - "The Injur'd Lovers, or The Ambitious Father"
*Thomas Shadwell - "The Squire of Alsatia"

Births

* January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian. (died 1772)
*February - Hermanus Angelkot junior, pharmacist, poet and dramatist (died 1727)
* February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, playwright (died 1763)
*April 2 (baptised) - Lewis Theobald, Shakespearean editor (died 1744)
* May 21 - Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744)
*November 13 - Noël-Antoine Pluche, priest and non-fiction writer (died 1761)
*December 24 - Johann Bachstrom, Lutheran theologian and writer (died 1742)
*"date unknown"
**Laurence Eusden, poet (died 1730)
**John Morgan, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1733)
**Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
**Wen Peixin, novelist and poet (died 1776)
*"probable" - William Meston, poet (died 1745)

Deaths

*March 15 - Peter Walsh, politician and historian (born 1618)
*May 14 - Antoine Furetière, satirist (born 1619)
*May 22 - Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, Lutheran theologian (born 1617)
*June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
*August 31 - John Bunyan, author of "Pilgrim's Progress" (born 1628)
*October 14 - Joachim von Sandrart, art historian (born 1606)
*November 16 - Bengt Gottfried Forselius, educational pioneer (born c.1660)
*November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
*"date unknown"
**François Bernier, doctor and travel writer (born 1625)
**Thomas Flatman, poet and painter (born 1637)
**Thomas Jevon, dramatist (born 1652)


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