1683 in poetry

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Great Britain

 * Philip Ayres, Emblems of Love, later reissued under the title Cupids Addresse to the Ladies
 * John Chalkhill, Thealma and Clearchus: A pastoral history, posthumously published; edited by Izaak Walton
 * Thomas D'Urfey, A New Collection of Songs and Poems
 * Thomas Flatman, On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert died November 29 of this year
 * Robert Gould, Presbytery Rough-Drawn, published anonymously
 * John Mason, Spiritual Songs; or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God upon Several Occasions, published anonymously
 * John Oldham, Poems, and Translations
 * Thomas Shipman, Carolina; or, Loyal Poems

Other

 * Benjamin Keach, Sion in Distress, or The Groans of the Protestant Church, English Colonial America
 * Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, Geistliche Lieder [...], German hymns; published in Rudolstadt

Births
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 * March 1 – Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama (died 1706), Indian-born Monpa Buddhist religious leader and Tibetan poet
 * May 20 – Elijah Fenton (died 1730), English poet
 * July 3 – Edward Young (died 1765), English poet

Deaths
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 * December 9 – John Oldham (born 1653), English satirical poet and translator
 * Katherine Austen (born 1629), English diarist and poet