1686 in poetry

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Works published

 * Sarah Fyge Egerton (later Sarah Field), 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 (Pastime for Virgins)
 * Matsuo Bashō publishes one of his best-remembered haiku:


 * furu ike ya / kawazu tobikomu / mizu no oto
 * an ancient pond / a frog jumps in / the splash of water [1686]

Births
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 * Allan Ramsay (died 1758), Scottish poet
 * Andrew Michael Ramsay (died 1743), Scottish-born writer and poet who lived most of his adult life in France

Deaths
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 * Shimonokōbe Chōryū (born 1624), Japanese poet-scholar