1686 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1686.
Events
- January – John Dryden is recorded as having converted to Roman Catholicism.[1]
New books
Prose
- Pierre Bayle – Philosophical Commentary (on religious freedom)
- Bernard de Fontenelle
- Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes (Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds)
- L'Histoire des Oracles
- Gottfried Leibniz
- Brevis Demonstratio Erroris Memorabilis Cartesii et Aliorum Circa Legem Naturae (A Brief Demonstration of the Memorable Error of Descartes and Others About the Law of Nature)
- Discours de Métaphysique
- Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴)
- Twenty Cases of Unfilial Children (本朝二十不孝 Honchō Nijū Fukō)
- The Life of an Amorous Woman (好色一代女 Kōshoku Ichidai Onna)
- Thomas Sydenham – Schedula monitoria de novae febris ingressu (Schedule of Symptoms of Newly Arrived Fever)
Children
- John Bunyan – A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Country Rhymes for Children
Drama
- Aphra Behn and John Blow – The Lucky Chance
- Thomas d'Urfey – The Banditti, or a Lady's Distress
- Thomas Jevon – The Devil of a Wife
- Francisco Antonio de Bances Candamo – La restauración de Buda
Poetry
- Sarah Fyge (Egerton) – The Female Advocate
- Anne Killigrew – Poems (posthumously published)
Births
- January 17 – Archibald Bower, Scottish historian (died 1766)
- August 12 – John Balguy, English philosopher (died 1748)
- September 5 – Antoine Touron, French historian and biographer (died 1775)
- Unknown date – Alban Thomas, Welsh physician and antiquarian (died 1771)
Deaths
- January 31 – Jean Mairet, French dramatist (born 1604)
- February 6 – Dorothy White, English Quaker pamphleteer (born c. 1630)
- February 25 – Abraham Calovius, German Lutheran theologian (born 1612)
- June 23 – Sir William Coventry, English statesman and author (born c. 1628)
- July 10 – John Fell, English academic and bishop (born 1625)
- August 13 – Louis Maimbourg, French Jesuit historian (born 1610)
- November 28 – Nicolas Letourneux, French religious writer (born 1640)
- December 6 – Nicola Avancini, Italian Jesuit writer (born 1612)
References
- ↑ Benson, Donald R. (Summer 1964). "Theology and Politics in Dryden's Conversion". Studies in English Literature. 4 (3): 393. doi:10.2307/449490.
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