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IrishThe 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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FranceFrench 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 BritainThe 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...
- George Chapman
George Chapman was an English dramatist, translator, and poet. He was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of Stoicism. Chapman has been identified as the Rival Poet of Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Minto, and as an anticipator of the Metaphysical Poets...
, translator, PetrarchFrancesco Petrarca , known in English as Petrarch, was an Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest humanists. Petrarch is often called the "Father of Humanism"...
s Seven Penitentiall Psalms, Paraphrastically Translated
- William Corkine
William Corkine was an English composer, lutenist, gambist and lyra viol player of the Renaissance.In private service in the second decade of the 17th century before traveling to Poland in 1617...
, Second Booke of Ayres, some to sing and play to the Basse-Violl alone: others to be sung to the Lute and Bass Viollin, including "Break of Day" by John DonneJohn Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
- John Davies
-Politicians:*John Davies , British businessman and Conservative MP and cabinet minister*John S. Davies , Pennsylvania politician...
, The Muses Sacrifice
- John Donne
John Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
, The First Anniversarie, An Anatomie of the World [...] The Second Anniversarie. Of the Progres of the Soule, anonymously published together, although The Second Anniversarie has a separate, dated, title page (and was originally published as An Anatomy of the World 1611Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Richard Brathwaite, The Golden Fleece...
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- John Dowland
John Dowland was an English Renaissance composer, singer, and lutenist. He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep" , "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell", but his instrumental music has undergone a major revival, and has...
, A Pilgrimes Solace, verse and music
- Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.-Early life:He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham,...
, Poly-OlbionThe Poly-Olbion is a topographical poem describing England and Wales. Written by Michael Drayton and published in 1612, it was reprinted with a second part in 1622. Drayton had been working on the project since at least 1598.-Content:...
, Part I, a topographical poem describing England and Wales; with notes by John SeldenJohn Selden was an English jurist and a scholar of England's ancient laws and constitution and scholar of Jewish law...
(Part 2 published 1622Nationality 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...
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- Orlando Gibbons
Orlando Gibbons was an English composer, virginalist and organist of the late Tudor and early Jacobean periods...
, First Set of Madrigals and Mottets
- Richard Johnson
Richard Johnson was an English romance writer. He was baptized in London on May 4, 1573. His most famous work is The Famous Historie of the Seaven Champions of Christendom . The success of this book was so great that the author added a second and a third part in 1608 and 1616...
, A Crowne-Garland of Goulden Roses, Gathered Out of Englands Royal Garden
- The Passionate Pilgrim
The Passionate Pilgrim is an anthology of 20 poems that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are accepted by present-day scholars as authentically Shakespearean.-Editions:...
, expanded edition, anthology
- Henry Peacham
Henry Peacham is the name shared by two English Renaissance writers who were father and son.The elder Henry Peacham was an English curate, best known for his treatise on rhetoric titled The Garden of Eloquence first published in 1577....
, the younger, Minerva Britannia; or, A Garden of Heroical Devises
- Samuel Rowlands
Samuel Rowlands , English author of pamphlets in prose and verse, which reflect the follies and humours of the lower middle-class life of his time, seems to have had no contemporary literary reputation; but his work throws considerable light on the development of popular literature and social life...
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- The Knave of Cubbes, published anonymously; the first edition (for which no copy is extant), titled A Merry Meeting, published 1600
Nationality 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 **...
but was ordered burned
- The Knave of Harts, published anonymously
- John Taylor
John Taylor was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet".-Biography:He was born in Gloucester, 24 August 1578....
, The Sculler
On the death of Prince Henry
See also 1613 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne...
The November 6 death of
Henry Frederick, Prince of WalesHenry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales was the elder son of King James I & VI and Anne of Denmark. His name derives from his grandfathers: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and Frederick II of Denmark. Prince Henry was widely seen as a bright and promising heir to his father's throne...
, at age 18, occasioned these poems:
- Sir William Alexander
William Alexander , who claimed the disputed title of Earl of Stirling, was an American major-general during the American Revolutionary War.-Life:...
, An Elegie on the Death of Prince Henrie, on the death of Henry Frederick, Prince of WalesHenry Frederick Stuart, Prince of Wales was the elder son of King James I & VI and Anne of Denmark. His name derives from his grandfathers: Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley and Frederick II of Denmark. Prince Henry was widely seen as a bright and promising heir to his father's throne...
- Joshua Sylvester
Joshua Sylvester was an English poet.-Biography:Sylvester was the son of a Kentish clothier. In his tenth year he was sent to school at King Edward VI School, Southampton, where he gained a knowledge of French...
, Lachrimae Lachrimarum; or, The Distillation of Teares Shede for the Untimely Death of the Incomparable Prince Panaretus, also includes poems in English, French, Latin and Italian by Walter Quin-Life:Born about 1575 in Dublin, he travelled abroad and became a cultivated writer in English, French, Italian, and Latin. He was apparently studying at Edinburgh University, when, in 1595, he was presented to James VI, who was charmed with his manner...
(A third edition was published in 1613Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, anonymously published, The Uncasing of Machivils Instructions to his Sonne...
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- George Wither
George Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V...
, Prince Henries Obsequies; or, Mournefull Elegies Upon his Death
Other
- Luis de Góngora
Luis de Góngora y Argote was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered to be the most prominent Spanish poets of their age. His style is characterized by what was called culteranismo, also known as Gongorism...
- Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea (Fable of Polyphemus and Galatea) SpainSpanish 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....
- Jean Vauquelin de La Fresnaye
Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye was a French poet born at the château of La Fresnaye-au-Sauvage in Normandy in 1536....
, Les Œuvres ("Works"), published posthumously in Caen, FranceFrench 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:...
Births
- February 8 – Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler was a poet and satirist. Born in Strensham, Worcestershire and baptised 14 February 1613, he is remembered now chiefly for a long satirical burlesque poem on Puritanism entitled Hudibras.-Biography:...
(died 1680Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Wentworth Dillon, translator, Horace's Art of Poetry, translation from the Latin of Horace's Ars poetica, including an essay by Edmund Waller* John Dryden and others, translators, Ovid's...
), EnglishThe 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...
- October 15 – Isaac de Benserade
Isaac de Benserade was a French poet.Born in Lyons-la-Forêt in the Province of Normandy, his family appears to have been connected with Richelieu, who bestowed on him a pension of 600 livres. He began his literary career with the tragedy of Cléopâtre , which was followed by four other pieces...
, FrenchFrench 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:...
playwright and court poet, a member of the Académie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
in 1674Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:...
- October 25 – James Graham
James Graham, 1st Marquess of Montrose was a Scottish nobleman and soldier, who initially joined the Covenanters in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but subsequently supported King Charles I as the English Civil War developed...
(died 1650Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia...
), 5th Earl and 1st Marquis of Montrose (Scotland) and poet
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- Anne Bradstreet
Anne Dudley Bradstreet was New England's first published poet. Her work met with a positive reception in both the Old World and the New World.-Biography:...
(died 1672Nationality 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...
), called "the chief poetess of Colonial America"; EnglishThe 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...
-language
- Edward King
Edward King , the subject of Milton's Lycidas, was born in Ireland in 1612, the son of Sir John King, a member of a Yorkshire family which had migrated to Ireland. Edward King was admitted a pensioner of Christ's College, Cambridge, on June 9, 1626, and four years later was elected a fellow...
(died 1637Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson -Works published:* Sir William Alexander, Recreations with the Muses, contains Four Monarchicke Tragedies,...
), IrishThe 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 who wrote in LatinThe 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...
in EnglandThe 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...
; a friend of John MiltonJohn Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...
- Zhou Lianggong
Zhou Lianggong was a Chinese poet, born in Kaifeng was an essayist and art historian, and had long family ties to Nanjing.He passed his Jinshi degree in 1640, becoming a magistrate in Shandong where he defended the city from attack from Manchu Qing army. He would however take his place in the new...
(died 1672Nationality 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...
), Chinese poet, essayist and art historian
- Łukasz Opaliński (died 1666
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In Denmark, Anders Bording begins publishing Den Danske Meercurius , a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author from this year to 1677-Works...
), Polish nobleman, poet, writer and political activist
- Sir Thomas Salusbury, 2nd Baronet (died 1643
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Births:Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:...
), Welsh politician and poet
- Jan Vos
Jan Jansz. Vos was a Dutch playwright and poet. A glassmaker by trade , he also played an important role as stage-manager and director of the theatre...
(died 1667Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Billingsley, Thesauro-Phulakion; or, A Treasury of Divine Raptures...
), Dutch playwright and poet
Deaths
- Ercole Bottrigari
Ercole Bottrigari was an Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer. The illegitimate son of Giovanni Battista Bottrigari, he was legitimized in 1538 and raised in his household in Bologna...
(born 1531Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Skelton, Colin Clout, publication year uncertain...
), Italian scholar, mathematician, poet, music theorist, architect, and composer
- Juan de la Cueva
Juan de la Cueva was a Spanish dramatist and poet.He was born in Seville of an aristocratic family.Towards 1579, he began writing for the stage. His plays, fourteen in number, were published in 1588, and are the earliest manifestations of the dramatic methods developed by Lope de Vega...
(born 1543Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics .-Works published:* Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la...
), Spanish dramatist and poet
- William Fowler, birth year uncertain (born 1560
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France...
), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
- Giovanni Battista Guarini
Giovanni Battista Guarini was an Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat.- Life :He was born in Ferrara, and spent his early life both in Padua and Ferrara, entering the service of Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, in 1567...
(born 1538Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Court of Venus * Sir David Lindsay,...
), Italian-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
poet, dramatist, and diplomat
- Sir John Harington (born 1560
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France...
), EnglishThe 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, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
- John Salusbury
-Life:Salusbury was a member of the Salusbury family of Lleweni in the Vale of Clywd, where they owned a considerable estate, including Lleweni Hall. Various members of the family acquired honours and appointments through their support of the Tudor monarchs...
(born 1567Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, * George Turberville:** The Eglogs of the Poet B...
), Welsh knight, politician and poet