# 1685 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Works published
### Colonial America

* Cotton Mather, An Elegy [...] on Nathanael Collins, English Colonial America (Massachusetts)

### Germany

* Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German:
** Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes, hymns; published in Rudolstadt
** Tägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abendopfer, hymns; published in Rudolstadt

### Great Britain

* Henry Bold, translator, Latine Songs, with their English: and Poems, includes "Chevy Chase", a ballad, and Sir John Suckling's poem "Why so pale and wan fond lover?"
* John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), La Muse de Cavalier; or, An Apology for such gentleman as make poetry their diversion, not their business in a letter by a scholar of Mars to one of Apollo, published anonymously
* Sir William Davenant, The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book of Gondibert, published posthumously (see Gondibert 1651)
* John Dryden and Jacob Tonson, Sylvae; or, The Second Part of Poetical Miscellanies, the second in a series of miscellanies published by Tonson; has translations from Virgil, Lucretius, Theocritus and Horace, mostly by Dryden (see also Miscellany Poems 1684, Examen Poeticum 1693, Annual Miscellany 1694, Poetical Miscellanies: Fifth Part 1704, Sixth Part 1709)
* Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions
* Edmund Waller, Divine Poems
* Samuel Wesley, Maggots; or, Poems on Several Subjects, Never Before Handled, published anonymously
* John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a late Person of Honour, London: Printed for A. Thorncome, posthumously published

#### English verses on the death of Charles II and coronation of James II

Charles II of England died on February 6; James II of England was crowned on April 23:
* Edmund Arwaker:
** The Vision
** The Second Part of The Vision, a Pindarick Ode, on the coronation of James II
* Aphra Behn:
** A Pindarick on the Death of Our Late Sovereign
** A Pindarick Poem on the Happy Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty James II
* John Dryden, Threnodia Augustalis, on the death of Charles II
* Thomas Otway, Windsor Castle, on the death of Charles II; Otway died in April

### Gujarat

* Premanand Bhatt, Nalākhyān, Gujarati

### Norway

* Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Taare-Offer, Norwegian

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* February 10 – Aaron Hill (died 1750), English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer
* June 30 – John Gay (died 1732), English poet and dramatist
* December 17 – Thomas Tickell (died 1740), English poet and man of letters
* Mary Barber (died 1755), English poet and member of Jonathan Swift's circle
* Jane Brereton (died 1740), English poet notable as a correspondent to The Gentleman's Magazine
* William Diaper (died 1717), English poet of the Augustan era
* William Harrison (died 1713), English poet and diplomat

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 18 – Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon (born 1633), Anglo-Irish poet
* June 16 – Anne Killigrew (born 1660), English poet and painter
* July 1 – Nalan Xingde (born 1655), Chinese Qing dynasty poet most famous for his ci poetry
* October 12 – Gerard Brandt (born 1626), Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian
* Francesc Fontanella (born 1622), Catalan poet, dramatist and priest