title: 1689 in literature
text: # 1689 in literature
  
  This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1689.
  
  ## Events
  
  * April 30 – Thomas Shadwell becomes Poet Laureate and Historiographer Royal in England.
  * April/May – Jonathan Swift becomes secretary to Sir William Temple.
  * May 26 – Matsuo Bashō begins the journey described in Oku no Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North).
  
  ## New books
  
  ### Prose
  
  * Richard Cox – Hibernia Anglicana
  * George Hickes – Institutiones Grammaticae Anglo-Saxonicae et Moeso-Gothicae
  * John Locke
     * Two Treatises of Government (anonymous)
     * A Letter Concerning Toleration (as by 'P.A.P.O.I.L.A.', in Latin)
     * An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (dated 1690)
  * John Selden (died 1654) – Table Talk
  * Johann Weikhard von Valvasor – The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola (Die Ehre deß Hertzogthums Crain)
  
  ### Drama
  
  * Aphra Behn – The Widow Ranter
  * James Carlile – The Fortune Hunters
  * Sor Juana – Amor es más labertino (Love the Greater Labyrinth)
  * Nathaniel Lee – The Massacre of Paris
  * William Mountfort – The Successful Strangers
  * Thomas Shadwell – Bury Fair
  * Nahum Tate – Dido and Aeneas
  * Matthew Taubman – London's Great Jubilee
  
  ## Births
  
  * January 18 – Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu, French satirist (died 1755)
  * January 21 – Daniel Henchman, Colonial American bookseller and publisher (died 1761)
  * May 26 – Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, English poet and letter-writer (died 1762)
  * July 9 – Alexis Piron, French epigrammatist (died 1773)
  * August 19 (bapt.) – Samuel Richardson, English novelist (died 1761)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * January – William Chamberlayne, English poet and playwright (born c. 1619)
  * February 21 – Isaac Vossius, Dutch-born collector of manuscripts (born 1618)
  * April 16 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist, poet and novelist (born 1640)
  * August 21 – William Cleland, Scottish soldier and poet (killed in battle, born c. 1661)
  * November 13 – Philipp von Zesen, German poet and hymn-writer (born 1619)
  * December 13 – Zbigniew Morsztyn, Polish poet (born c. 1628)
  * Unknown date – Pjetër Bogdani, Albanian-language author (born c. 1630)
  