1690 in poetry

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Works published

• Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, published anonymously (see The Reasons of Mr Bays Changing his Religion 1688)
• Thomas D'Urfey:
  • Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster
  • New Poems
• John Glanvill, Some Odes of Horace Imitated with Relation to his Majesty and the Times
• Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, published anonymously, on William II of England's victories in Ireland
• Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered, a fragment, possibly intended by Waller to turn Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maides Tragedy [1619] into a comedy; with other poems
• Edward Ward, The School of Politicks; or, The Humours of a Coffee-House, anonymous

Births

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• January 1 – Christian Falster (died 1752), Dutch poet and philologist
• 1689/90 – Susanna Highmore (died 1750), English poet

Deaths

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• Peter Folger (born 1617), English-born American poet and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
• Keshav Pandit (born unknown), Shivaji's religious chief, Sanskrit scholar and poet
• Franciscus Plante (born 1613), Dutch poet and chaplain
• Wang Wu (born 1632), Chinese painter and poet

See also

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