1690 in poetry

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Works published

 * Thomas Brown, The Late Converts Exposed, published anonymously (see The Reasons of Mr Bays Changing his Religion 1688)
 * Thomas D'Urfey:
 * Collin's Walk Through London and Westminster
 * New Poems
 * John Glanvill, Some Odes of Horace Imitated with Relation to his Majesty and the Times
 * Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax, An Epistle to the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Dorset and Middlesex, published anonymously, on William II of England's victories in Ireland
 * Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered, a fragment, possibly intended by Waller to turn Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maides Tragedy [1619] into a comedy; with other poems
 * Edward Ward, The School of Politicks; or, The Humours of a Coffee-House, anonymous

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 1 – Christian Falster (died 1752), Dutch poet and philologist
 * 1689/90 – Susanna Highmore (died 1750), English poet

Deaths
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 * Peter Folger (born 1617), English-born American poet and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
 * Keshav Pandit (born unknown), Shivaji's religious chief, Sanskrit scholar and poet
 * Franciscus Plante (born 1613), Dutch poet and chaplain
 * Wang Wu (born 1632), Chinese painter and poet