1686 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Sarah Fyge Egerton, The Female Advocate, published anonymously in reply to Robert Gould's Love Given O're 1682
• Thomas Flatman, A Song for St Caecilia's Day
• Anne Killigrew, Poems by Mrs Anne Killigrew
• Susanna Elizabeth Zeidler, Jungferlicher Zeitvertreiber
• Matsuo Bashō publishes one of his best-remembered haiku:

  Births

• Allan Ramsay, Scottish poet
• Andrew Michael Ramsay, Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France

  Deaths

• Shimonokōbe Chōryū, Japanese poet-scholar