title: 1687 in poetry
text: # 1687 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * William Winstanley publishes the Lives of the most famous English poets from which biographical data on a number of poets can be obtained
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### Great Britain
  
  * John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), Poetical Exercises written on several occasions, published anonymously
  * John Dryden:
     * The Hind and the Panther, published anonymously (see also the work by Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, below)
     * A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
  * Thomas D'Urfey, A Compleat Collection of Mr D'Urfey's Songs and Odes
  * John Norris, A Collection of Miscellanies, prose and poetry
  * Matthew Prior and Charles Montagu, The Hind and the Panther Transvers'd to the Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse, published anonymously, a burlesque of John Dryden's The Hind and the Panther (see above)
  * Thomas Shadwell, translator, The Tenth Satyr of Juvenal, with English and Latin on facing pages
  
  ### Other
  
  * John Cotton II, Poem Occasioned by the Death of [...] John Alden, English Colonial American (Massachusetts)
  * Benjamin Harris, compiler, The New England Primer, English Colonial American
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * June 13 – Paolo Rolli (died 1765), Italian librettist, poet and translator
  * c. August 26 – Henry Carey (suicide 1743), English poet, dramatist and songwriter
  * Mary Chandler (died 1745), English poet and milliner
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * March 28 – Constantijn Huygens (born 1596), Dutch poet and composer
  * April 16 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (born 1628), English statesman and poet
  * April 28 – Charles Cotton (born 1630), English poet and writer
  * May 6 – Thomas Washbourne (born 1606), English clergyman and poet
  * September 1 – Henry More (born 1614), English philosopher and poet
  * October 21 – Edmund Waller (born 1606), English poet and politician
  * Pierre Petit (born 1617), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
  