1693 in poetry
# 1693 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Events

* John Locke writes his essay Some Thoughts Concerning Education which discusses how poetry and music should not be included as part of an educational curriculum

## Works

### Britain

* Richard Ames, Fatal Friendship; or, The Drunkards Misery
* John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, editors, Examen Poeticum: Being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems, one of six anthologies published by Tonson from 1684 to 1709; sometimes this is referred to as "Tonson's third Miscellany, sometimes as "Dryden's third Miscellany, or just "the third Miscellany; the volume includes:
   * Dryden's translation of the first book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
   * Dryden, "Iphis and Ianthe", a "fable" translated from Book 9 of Metamorphoses
   * Dryden, "Acis, Polyphemus and Galatea", translation from Book 13 of Metamorphoses
   * Dryden, "The Last Parting of Hector and Andromache", translation from Homer's Iliad
* John Dryden, editor, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, an anthology including translations by Dryden, Nahum Tate, William Congreve and others
* Robert Gould, The Corruption of the Times by Money
* Benjamin Keach, The Everlasting Covenant
* Samuel Wesley, The Life of Our Blessed Lord

### Other languages

* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Discours sur l'Ode, criticism; the author defended Pindar and advocated enthusiasm in lyric poetry

## Births

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

* Hildebrand Jacob, English poet (died 1739)

## Deaths

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

* January 8 – Jan Andrzej Morsztyn (born 1621), Polish poet and member of the noble Szlachta class
* September 9 – Ihara Saikaku (born 1642), Japanese poet and creator of the ukiyo-zōshi ("books of the floating world") genre of prose fiction
* December 13 – Dosoftei (born 1624), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
