1688年の文学

この記事には、 1688年の文学的な出来事や出版物に関する情報が含まれています。

• 2月 –ジョン・ロックはメアリー王女に付き添われてイギリスに帰国した[ ^{1 ]。}同年、彼の代表作『人間知性論』^の最初の要約がルクレールの『ビブリオテーク・ユニヴェルセル』に掲載されたが、作品自体は翌年まで出版されなかった。
• 12月 –ジョン・ドライデンは名誉革命後の新君主制への忠誠を誓うことを拒否し、英国桂冠詩人の職を解任された。彼は、 1999年にアンドリュー・モーションによる任期制が導入されるまで、在任中に死去しなかった唯一の桂冠詩人である。^{[ 2 ]}
• 日付不明–ジョン・ミルトンの『失楽園』の第4版、最初の挿絵入り版がロンドンのジェイコブ・トンソン社から出版された。挿絵画家にはジョン・バプティスト・メディナも含まれている。^{[ 3 ]}

• 1月29日–エマヌエル・スウェーデンボルグ、スウェーデンの科学者、哲学者、神学者。（1772年没）
• February – Hermanus Angelkot junior, Dutch pharmacist, poet and dramatist (died 1727)
• February 4 – Pierre de Marivaux, French playwright (died 1763)
• February 7 – John Morgan, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1733)
• April 2 (baptised) – Lewis Theobald, English Shakespearean editor (died 1744)
• May 21 – Alexander Pope, English poet (died 1744)
• September 6 (baptised) – Laurence Eusden, English poet laureate (died 1730)
• November 13 – Noël-Antoine Pluche, French natural historian and priest (died 1761)
• November 15 (baptised) – Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
• December 24 – Johann Bachstrom, Polish theologian and writer (died 1742)
• Unknown date – Richard Bradley, English scientific writer (died 1732)
• probable – William Meston, Scottish poet (died 1745)^[5]

• March 15 – Peter Walsh, Irish politician and historian (born 1618)
• May 14 – Antoine Furetière, French satirist (born 1619)
• May 22 – Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, German theologian (born 1617)
• June 26 – Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
• August 31 – John Bunyan, English writer and preacher (born 1628)
• September 22 – François Bernier, French physician and travel writer (born 1625)
• October 14 – Joachim von Sandrart, German/Dutch art historian (born 1606)
• November 16 – Bengt Gottfried Forselius, Swedish Estonian educational pioneer (born c. 1660)
• November 26 – Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
• December 8 – Thomas Flatman, English poet and painter (born 1635)
• December 20 – Thomas Jevon, English playwright and harlequin (born 1652)