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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Charles BansleyCharles BansleyCharles Bansley , was an English poet.Bansley clearly wrote in the time of Henry VIII and Edward VI, but the dates of his birth and death are unknown...
, The Pride of Women - Robert CrowleyRobert Crowley (printer)Robert Crowley also Robertus Croleus, Roberto Croleo, Robart Crowleye, Robarte Crole, and Crule , was a stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman who was among the Marian exiles at Frankfurt...
, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes - John HeywoodJohn HeywoodJohn Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.-Life:...
, An Hundred Epigrammes - William LanglandWilliam LanglandWilliam Langland is the conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman.- Life :The attribution of Piers to Langland rests principally on the evidence of a manuscript held at Trinity College, Dublin...
(attributed), Piers PlowmanPiers PlowmanPiers Plowman or Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman is the title of a Middle English allegorical narrative poem by William Langland. It is written in unrhymed alliterative verse divided into sections called "passus"...
, the B text - Sir Thomas WyattThomas Wyatt (poet)Sir Thomas Wyatt was a 16th-century English lyrical poet credited with introducing the sonnet into English. He was born at Allington Castle, near Maidstone in Kent – though his family was originally from Yorkshire...
, Pentential Psalms
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- 12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 16041604 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir William Alexander:** Aurora** A Paraenesis to the Prince...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
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- Baothghalach Mór Mac AodhagáinBaothghalach Mór Mac AodhagáinBaothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin was an Irish poet.Reputedly from Duniry, he was of the Mac Aodhagáin clan of poets. In his lifetime, his family were keepers of Leabhar Breac. His poems were edited by Lambert McKenna in 1939.-References:...
(died 16001600 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered * Nicholas Breton:** Melancholike Humours** Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message **...
), IrishIrish poetryThe history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
poet part of the Mac AodhagáinMac AodhagáinMac Aodhagáin was the name of an Irish family of Brehons who were hereditary lawyers - firstly to the Ó Conchobhair Kings of Connacht, and later to the Burkes of Clanricarde....
clan - Kasper Miakskowski (died 16221622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
), PolishPolish poetryPolish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński .... - Alexander MontgomerieAlexander MontgomerieAlexander Montgomerie , Scottish Jacobean courtier and poet, or makar, born in Ayrshire. He was one of the principal members of the Castalian Band, a circle of poets in the court of James VI in the 1580s which included the king himself. Montgomerie was for a time in favour as one of the king's...
(died 15981598 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:*Richard Barnfield:** The Encomium of Lady Pecunia; or, The Praise of Money** Poems in Divers Humours...
), Scottish - Mikolaj Sep SzarzynskiMikolaj Sep SzarzynskiMikołaj Sęp Szarzyński was an influential Polish poet of the late Renaissance who wrote in both Polish and Latin. He was a pioneer of the Baroque and the greatest representative of the metaphysical movement of the era in Poland. His love poems are often classed as mannerist...
born about this year (died c. 15811581 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the...
), PolishPolish poetryPolish poetry has a centuries old history, similar to the Polish literature.Three most famous Polish poets are known as the Three Bards: Adam Mickiewicz , Juliusz Słowacki and Zygmunt Krasiński .... - Shlomo Ephraim LuntschitzShlomo Ephraim LuntschitzShlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz was a rabbi, poet and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yakar.-Biography:...
(died 16191619 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ben Jonson becomes poet laureate of England, succeeding Samuel Daniel, who died this year * Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg-Works published:*...
), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator - Richard RowlandsRichard RowlandsRichard Rowlands , Anglo-Dutch antiquary, whose real name was Verstegen , was the son of a cooper established in East London. His grandfather, Theodore Roland Verstegen, a Dutch emigrant, came from Gelderland to the Kingdom of England c...
(died 16401640 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according...
), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer - Cristóbal de ViruésCristóbal de ViruésCristóbal de Virués was a Spanish dramatist and poet.He was born at Valencia about the middle of the 16th century, joined the army, fought at Lepanto, and retired to his native place with the rank of captain shortly before 1586....
(died 16141614 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...
), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
playwright and poet
- Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin
Deaths
- February – Marcantonio FlaminioMarcantonio FlaminioMarcantonio Flaminio , also known as Marcus Antonius Flaminius, was an Italian humanist poet, known for his Neo-Latin works. During his life, he toured the courts and literary centers of Italy. He was also a supporter of the Reformed Church...
(born 1498), Italian, LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
-language poet - June 12 – Cristobal de CastillejoCristóbal de CastillejoCristóbal de Castillejo was a Spanish poet, contemporary of Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán, who championed the use of traditional forms of Spanish poetry and criticized the use of Italianate forms such as the sonnet....
(born c. 1490), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature.... - November 7 – Jón ArasonJón ArasonJón Arason was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reform in Iceland.-Background:...
(born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed - Also:
- Pir Sultan AbdalPir Sultan AbdalPir Sultan Abdal was a legendary Turkish Alevi poet, whose direct and clear language as well as the richness of his imagination and the beauty of his verses led him to become loved among the Turkish people. Pir Sultan Abdal reflected the social, cultural and religious life of the people; he was a...
(born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire - Nicholas Bourbon (born 15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
or 15051505 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century * Anonymous, Octavian, publication...
), French court preceptorPreceptorA preceptor is a teacher responsible to uphold a certain law or tradition, a precept.-Christian military orders:A preceptor was historically in charge of a preceptory, the headquarters of certain orders of monastic Knights, such as the Knights Hospitaller and Knights Templar, within a given...
and poet - Gian Giorgio TrissinoGian Giorgio TrissinoGian Giorgio Trissino was an Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat, and grammarian.-Biography:...
(born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian
- Pir Sultan Abdal
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 16th century in poetry16th century in poetry-Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
- 16th century in literature16th century in literatureSee also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature is the literature written in the Dutch language in the Low Countries from around 1550 to around 1700...
- French Renaissance literatureFrench Renaissance literatureFor more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
- Renaissance literatureRenaissance literatureRenaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
- Spanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...