title: 1698 in poetry
text: # 1698 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works
  
  * Aphra Behn – Poetical Remains
  * John Hopkins
     * The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin
     * The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (died 1782), Italian poet and opera librettist
  * January 10? – Richard Savage (died 1743), English poet
  * March 22 – John Ellis (died 1791), English scrivener and poet
  * May 8 – Henry Baker (died 1774), English naturalist, poet and sign-language developer
  * July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (died 1783), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet
  * Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (died 1770), Scottish Gaelic poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * January – Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (born 1625), Irish language poet
  * February 28 – Nicolò Minato (born 1627), Italian poet, librettist and impresario
  * September 3 – Sir Robert Howard (born 1626), English playwright, poet and brother-in-law of John Dryden
  