1688 in literature

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The year 1688 in literature involved some significant events.

Events

John Locke has the first abstract of his seminal Essay concerning Human Understanding appear in Leclerc's Bibliotheque universelle
Fourth (and illustrated) edition of John Milton's Paradise Lost
First printing of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

David Abercromby - Ars explorandi medicas facultates plantarum ex solo sapore
Etienne Baluze - Marca hispanica
Aphra Behn:
- The History of the Nun, or the Fair Vow-Breaker
- Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave
The "Bucharest Bible" - Biblia de la Bucureşti, first complete translation of the Bible into Romanian
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle - Digression sur les anciens et les modernes
Ihara Saikaku
- The Eternal Storehouse of Japan
- Tales of Samurai Honor
Henry More - Divine Dialogues
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax - The Anatomy of an Equivalent

January 29 - Emanuel Swedenborg Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian. (died 1772)
February - Hermanus Angelkot junior, pharmacist, poet and dramatist (died 1727)
February 4 - Pierre de Marivaux, playwright (died 1763)
April 2 (baptised) - Lewis Theobald, Shakespearean editor (died 1744)
May 21 - Alexander Pope, poet (died 1744)
November 13 - Noël-Antoine Pluche, priest and non-fiction writer (died 1761)
December 24 - Johann Bachstrom, Lutheran theologian and writer (died 1742)
date unknown
- Laurence Eusden, poet (died 1730)
- John Morgan, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1733)
- Charles Rivington, English publisher (died 1742)
probable - William Meston, poet (died 1745)

March 15 - Peter Walsh, politician and historian (born 1618)
May 14 - Antoine Furetière, satirist (born 1619)
May 22 - Johannes Andreas Quenstedt, Lutheran theologian (born 1617)
June 26 - Ralph Cudworth, English philosopher (born 1617)
August 31 - John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress (born 1628)
October 14 - Joachim von Sandrart, art historian (born 1606)
November 16 - Bengt Gottfried Forselius, educational pioneer (born c.1660)
November 26 - Philippe Quinault, French dramatist (born 1635)
date unknown
- François Bernier, doctor and travel writer (born 1625)
- Thomas Flatman, poet and painter (born 1637)
- Thomas Jevon, dramatist (born 1652)