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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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Events
- Sir Philip Sidney is knighted
- William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
's first daughter Susanna is born
FranceFrench poetryFrench 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:...
- Jean de SpondeJean de SpondeJean de Sponde was a Baroque French poet.- Biography :Born at Mauléon, in what is now Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean de Sponde was raised in an austere Protestant family in the Basque region of France with close relations with the royal court of Navarre...
, a 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...
translation of HomerHomerIn the Western classical tradition Homer , is the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and is revered as the greatest ancient Greek epic poet. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature, and have had an enormous influence on the history of literature.When he lived is...
, with commentaries - Catherine Des RochesCatherine Des RochesCatherine Fradonnet , called Catherine Des Roches, was a French woman writer of the Renaissance.She was the daughter of Madeleine Des Roches, née Madeleine Neveu and of André Fradonnet, seigneur Des Roches, the procurer of Poitiers...
, also known as "Catherine Fradonnet", and her mother, Madeleine Des RochesMadeleine Des RochesMadeleine Des Roches was a French woman writer of the Renaissance. She was the mother of Catherine Fradonnet, called Catherine Des Roches , to whom she taught poetry, literature and ancient languages.Madeleine Neveu married André Fradonnet, seigneur Des Roches, the procurer of Poitiers around 1539...
, FranceFrench poetryFrench 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:...
:- La Puce de Madame Des Roches (collection of verse)
- Secondes Oeuvres, Poitiers: Nicolas Courtoys
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...
- Robert Greene, Mamillia (Part 2 published in 15931593 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the...
Mamillia: The triumph of Pallas - William HunnisWilliam HunnisWilliam Hunnis was an English Protestant poet, dramatist, and composer.Hunnis was a gentleman of the Chapel Royal to Edward VI, but was imprisoned during the reign of Mary for plotting against her regime and narrowly escaped execution...
, Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul - Richard RobinsonRichard RobinsonSir Richard Atkinson Robinson, DL, was a retail chemist and druggist, who later became a local politician and was the first Conservative to lead the London County Council .-Early life:...
, The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable, of Prince Arthure, and his Knightly Armory of the Round Table, translated from the French of La devise des armes des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, a treatise on heraldry published in Paris in 15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
; adapted by the author to advertise a popular society of archers, Prince Arthur and the London Round Table; Edmund SpenserEdmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English...
's schoolmaster, Richard Mulcaster, was a member
Births
- March 3 – Edward HerbertEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of CherburyEdward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury was an Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher of the Kingdom of England.-Early life:...
(died 16481648 in poetryTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year...
), Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher - November 24 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y AguilarJuan Martínez de Jáuregui y AguilarJuan Chandra de Jáuregui y Aguilar , Spanish poet, scholar and painter in the Siglo de Oro....
(died 16411641 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented Guirlande de Julie, a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year ; five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other...
), 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....
poet, scholar and painter - Robert AylettRobert AylettRobert Aylett was an English lawyer and religious poet.-Life:He was born in Rivenhall, Essex and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1605, M.A. in 1608, and LL.D in 1614. Living at Feering, he acted for the archdeacon of Colchester and as justice of the peace...
(died 16551655 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Cotgrave, The English Treasury of Wit and Language: collected out of the most, and best of our English drammatick poems; methodically digested into common places for generall use...
), 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...
lawyer and religious poet - William BasseWilliam BasseWilliam Basse was an English poet. He was a follower of Edmund Spenser. He is now remembered mostly for a eulogy he wrote about Shakespeare.-Life:...
(died 1653/16541653 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Margaret Cavendish, Lady Newcastle, Poems, and Fancies, prose and poetry* An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions...
), 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... - John Beaumont (died 16271627 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* English poet Sir John Beaumont, 1st Baronet presented with the Beaumont Baronetcy, of Grace Dieu in the County of Leicester...
), poet - Hugo GrotiusHugo GrotiusHugo Grotius , also known as Huig de Groot, Hugo Grocio or Hugo de Groot, was a jurist in the Dutch Republic. With Francisco de Vitoria and Alberico Gentili he laid the foundations for international law, based on natural law...
(died 16451645 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Francis Quarles, Solomons Recantatiion, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased...
), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet - Ishikawa Jozan 石川丈山 (died 16721672 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Le Mercure galant was founded in France by Donneau de Visé...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
poet and intellectual - Francisco de RiojaFrancisco de RiojaFrancisco de Rioja was a Spanish poet. Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral and a member of the Supreme Inquisition.-Works:...
(died 16591659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....
), 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.... - Aurelian TownshendAurelian TownshendAurelian Townshend was a seventeenth-century English poet and playwright.-Life:Very little is well established about Townshend's life...
born about this year (died c. 16431643 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Births:Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:...
), 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...
poet and playwright
Deaths
- January 1 – François de BelleforestFrançois de BelleforestFrançois de Belleforest was a prolific French author, poet and translator of the Renaissance. He was born in a poor family and his father was killed when he was seven...
(born 15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
poet and translator - date unknown – Alexander Arbuthnot (born 15381538 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Court of Venus * Sir David Lindsay,...
), Scottish poet - date unknown – Pey de GarrosPey de GarrosPey de Garros , or Pèir de Garròs in modern Gascon, was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language....
(born 15251525 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century* Pietro Bembo,...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench 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:...
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...
- Elizabethan literatureElizabethan literatureThe term Elizabethan literature refers to the English literature produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I .The Elizabethan era saw a great flourishing of literature, especially in the field of drama...
- 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...
- University WitsUniversity WitsThe University Wits were a group of late 16th century English playwrights who were educated at the universities and who became playwrights and popular secular writers...