1689 in poetry
# 1689 in poetry

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## Events

* May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi ("Narrow road to the interior") on which he visits Kisakata, and later composes a waka about Kisakata's islands.
* Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate of England.

## Works published

### Great Britain

* Aphra Behn, The History of the Nun; or, The Fair Vow-Breaker, Behn died on April 16 of this year
* Charles Cotton, Poems on Several Occasions
* Robert Gould, Poems
* Nathaniel Lee, On the Death of Mrs Behn, Aphra Behn died on April 16 of this year

### Other

* Michael Wigglesworth, Riddles Unriddled; or, Christian Paradoxes, a poem published in the 14th edition of Meat Out of the Eater, English Colonial America

## Births

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

* February 25 – Khushal Khattaktak (born 1613), Pashtun warrior, poet and tribal chief
* May 3 (bapt.) – William Broome (died 1745), English poet and translator
* May 15 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (died 1762), English aristocrat and writer
* November 18 – Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (died 1752), Sufi scholar and saint, poet of the Sindhi language

## Deaths

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

* January – William Chamberlayne (born c.1619), English poet and playwright
* April 16 – Aphra Behn (born 1640), English woman playwright and poet
* August 21 – William Cleland (born 1661), Scottish poet and soldier, killed at Battle of Dunkeld
* October 4 – Quirinus Kuhlmann (born 1651), German Baroque poet and mystic, burned at the stake
* December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn (born 1628), Polish poet
* date unknown – Gwilym Puw (born 1626), Welsh Catholic poet and Royalist officer
