1679 in literature

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This article lists some of the most significant events of the year 1679 in literature.

Events

• John Locke returns to England from France.
• Étienne Baluze becomes almoner to King Louis XIV of France.
• Thomas Otway returns from military service in the Netherlands.
• In June, Nathaniel Lee's play The Massacre at Paris (about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, as was Marlowe's play of the same title) was suppressed by the Stuart regime as anti-French. (The French were English allies at the time.)

New books

• Beaumont and Fletcher - the second Beaumont and Fletcher folio
• Charles Blount - Anima Mundi

New drama

• Aphra Behn - The Feigned Courtesans
  • The Young King
• John Crowne - The Ambitious Statesman, or the Loyal Favourite
• John Dryden - Oedipus
  • Troilus and Cressida, or Truth Found Too Late (adapted from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida)
• Nathaniel Lee - Caesar Borgia
  • The Massacre at Paris
• Thomas Otway - The History and Fall of Caius Marius
• Jacques Pradon - La Troade
• Thomas Shadwell - The Woman Captain

Poetry

• "Ephelia" (Mary Villiers?) - Female Poems...by Ephelia

Births

• January 24 - Christian Wolff (philosopher) (died 1745)
• August 16 - Catherine Trotter Cockburn, novelist, dramatist and philosopher (died 1749)
• September 11 - Thomas Parnell, clergyman and poet (died 1718)
• September 24 - Eugenio Gerardo Lobo, soldier and poet (died 1750)
• September 26 - Johann Gottlob Carpzov, Biblical scholar (died 1767)
• October 26 - Heinrich Jacob Bashuysen, printer (died c. 1750)
• date unknown
  • Abel Evans, poet (died 1737)
  • Charles Johnson, dramatist (died 1748)
  • Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (died 1734)
• probable - Penelope Aubin, novelist and translator (died c. 1731)

Deaths

• January 11 - Joannes Lucius, Dalmatian historian (born 1604)
• February 5 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch dramatist (born 1587)
• April 4 - Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, German poet (born 1616)
• October 12 - William Gurnall, religious writer (born 1617)
• October 26 - Roger Boyle, 1st Earl of Orrery (born 1621)
• December 4 - Thomas Hobbes, philosopher (born 1588)
  • Jacob Alting, philologist and theologian (born 1618)
  • Johann Michael Vansleb, theologian and linguist (born 1635)