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1597 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Nicholas Breton: ** ''The Arbor of Amorous Devises'', anthology partly by Breton, probably compiled by the printer, Richard Jones; reprints 10 poems from ''Brittons Bowre of Delights'' 1591Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ** ''Auspicante Jehova'' * John Dowland, ''The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes'' verse and music (see also ''Second Booke'' 1600, ''Third and Last Booke'' 1603) *Michael Drayton, ''Englands Heroicall Epistles'' (expanded in 1598; reprinted in ''The Barrons Wars'' 1603) * Joseph Hall, ''Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes'' * Henry Lok, ''Ecclesiastes, Otherwise Called the Preacher'' * Gervase Markham, translated from a lost original work by Genevieve Petau de Maulette, ''Devoreux'' * Thomas Middleton, ''The Wisodome of Solomon Para ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Tofte
Robert Tofte (bap. 1562 – d. Jan. 1620) was an English translator and poet. He is known for his translations of Ariosto's ''Satires'' and his sonnet sequences ''Alba, The Months Minde of a Melancholy Lover'' (1598) and ''Laura, The Toyes of a Traveller: Or, The Feast of Fancie'' (1597). He also authored a partial translation of Boiardo's ''Orlando Innamorato'' and was possibly responsible for the popular and anonymous ''Batchelar's Banquet'' (1603) as well. Tofte is perhaps most famous for his incidental reference to ''Love's Labour's Lost'' in ''Alba'', the first mention of that Shakespeare play in print. Life Born the son of a fishmonger, Tofte eventually moved in aristocratic and literary circles and invariably presented himself as "R.T. Gentleman" on the title pages of his published works. He studied at Oxford beginning in 1582 and travelled in France and Italy between 1591 and 1594, where he perfected his Italian and French and possibly met Samuel Daniel and Giovanni Batt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Harvey (poet)
Christopher Harvey (1597–1663) was an English clergyman and poet. Life The son of the Rev. Christopher Harvey of Bunbury, Cheshire and his wife Ellen (Helen), he came from a Puritan background, his father's associates including William Hinde, Samuel Torshell and John Bruen. He was a batler of Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1613, and graduated B.A. 19 May 1617, becoming M.A. 1 February 1620. In 1630 he was rector of Whitney, Herefordshire; at Michaelmas 1632 he became head-master of Kington grammar school, but he seems to have returned to Whitney on or before the following 25 March, when a new head-master was appointed. On 14 November 1639 Harvey was instituted to the vicarage of Clifton on Dunsmore, Warwickshire. He owed this preferment to his patron Sir Robert Whitney, according to a dedicatory epistle to Whitney in his edition of Thomas Pierson's ''Excellent Encouragements against Afflictions'', 1647. His widowed mother had married Pierson. Harvey was buried at Clifton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1656 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * This year in England, John Phillips, a nephew of John Milton, is summoned before the privy council for his share in a book of licentious poems, ''Sportive Wit'', suppressed by the authorities but almost immediately replaced by a similar collection, ''Wit and Drollery''. * Hallgrímur Pétursson begins work on his ''Passion Hymns'' Works published * Margaret Cavendish, Lady Newcastle, ''Natures Pictures Drawn by Fancies Pencil to the Life'', fiction, poetry and proseCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Abraham Cowley: ** ''Miscellanies'', including " On the Death of Mr. Crashaw" ** ''Poems'' ** ''Pindaric Odes''Mark Van Doren, ''John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry'', p 193, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960") * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johan Van Heemskerk
Johan van Heemskerk (1597–1656), Dutch poet, was born at Amsterdam. He was educated as a child at Bayonne, and entered the University of Leiden in 1617. In 1621 he went abroad on the grand tour, leaving behind him his first volume of poems, ''Minnekunst'' (The Art of Love), which appeared in 1622. He was absent from Holland four years. He was made master of arts at Bourges in 1623, and in 1624 visited Hugo Grotius in Paris. On his return in 1625 he published ''Minnepligt'' (The Duty of Love), and began to practise as an advocate in the Hague. In 1628 he was sent to England in his legal capacity by the Dutch East India Company, to settle the dispute respecting Amboyna. In the same year he published the poem entitled ''Minnekunde'', or the "Science of Love." He proceeded to Amsterdam in 1640, where he married Alida, sister of the patrician regent Geurt van Beuningen. In 1641 he published a Dutch version of Corneille's ''The Cid'', a tragi-comedy, and in 1647 his most famous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Poetry
German literature () comprises those literary texts written in the German language. This includes literature written in Germany, Austria, the German parts of Switzerland and Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, South Tyrol in Italy and to a lesser extent works of the German diaspora. German literature of the modern period is mostly in Standard German, but there are some currents of literature influenced to a greater or lesser degree by dialects (e.g. Alemannic). Medieval German literature is literature written in Germany, stretching from the Carolingian dynasty; various dates have been given for the end of the German literary Middle Ages, the Reformation (1517) being the last possible cut-off point. The Old High German period is reckoned to run until about the mid-11th century; the most famous works are the ''Hildebrandslied'' and a heroic epic known as the ''Heliand''. Middle High German starts in the 12th century; the key works include '' The Ring'' (ca. 1410) and the poems of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1639 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Robert Davenport, ''A Crowne for a Conquerour; and Too Late to Call Backe Yesterday''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Henry Glapthorne, ''Poems'' Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * March 5 ''(bapt.)'' – Charles Sedley (died 1701), English wit, dramatist, poet and statesman * Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu (died 1720), French poet and wit Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * May 21 – Tommaso Campanella (born 1568), Italian philosopher and poet * August 20 – Martin Opitz (born 1597), German * October – Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland (born 1585), English poet, translator and dramatist * December – Sir Henry Wotton (born 1568), English diplomat, author and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Opitz Von Boberfeld
Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (23 December 1597 – 20 August 1639) was a German poet, regarded as the greatest of that nation during his lifetime. Biography Opitz was born in Bunzlau (Bolesławiec) in Lower Silesia, in the Principality of Schweidnitz-Jauer, the son of a prosperous citizen. He received his early education at the gymnasium of his native town, of which his uncle was rector, and in 1617 attended the high school—"Schönaichianum"—at Beuthen an der Oder (Bytom Odrzański), where he made a special study of French, Dutch and Italian poetry. In 1618 he entered the University of Frankfurt-on-Oder as a student of ''literae humaniores'', and in the same year published his first essay, '' Aristarchus, sive De contemptu linguae Teutonicae'', which presented the German language as suitable for poetry. In 1619 Opitz went to Heidelberg, where he became the leader of the school of young poets which at that time made that university town remarkable. Visiting Leiden in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Poetry
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature, are estimated to have been composed around 205-184 BC. History Scholars conventionally date the start of Latin literature to the first performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC. Livius translated Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, using meters that were basically those of Greek drama, modified to the needs of Latin. His successors Plautus ( 254 – 184 BC) and Terence ( 195/185 – 159? BC) further refined the borrowings from the Greek stage and the prosody of their verse is substantially the same as for classical Latin verse. Ennius (239 – 169 BC), virtually a contemporary of Livius, introduced the traditional meter of Greek epic, the dactylic hexameter, into Latin literature; he substituted it for the jerky Saturnian meter in which Livius had been composing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1654 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Robert Aylet, ''Divine, and Moral Speculations in Metrical Numbers, Upon Various Subjects'', including previously published verses along with "The Song of Songs" and "The Brides Ornaments", apparently published in this book for the first timeCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Playford, ''A Breefe Introduction to the Skills of Musick for Song & Violl'', verse and music * ''The Harmonie of the Muses; Or, The Gentlemans and Ladies Choisest Recreation'', an anthology from nine contributors; includes several by John Donne, "Elegy XVII" (here titled "Loves Progress by Dr ''Don'') and " Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going to Bed" (here titled "An Elegie made by J.D."), as well as Donne's "A Valediction: forbidding Mourning", "Loves Diet", "The Prohibition" and " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1648 In Poetry
To 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 Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain * Joseph Beaumont, ''Psyche; or, Loves Mysterie, In XX Canto's''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Richard Corbet, ''Poetica Stromata; or, A Collection of Sundry Peices'' ic''in Poetry'', the second edition of ''Certain Elegant Poems'' 1647, (see also ''Poems'' 1672) * William Davenant, ''London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City'' * Sir Richard Fanshawe, ''Il Pastor Fido the Faithfull Shepherd'', entirely written by Fanshawe; intended as an addition to his translation of Giovanni Battista Guarini's ''Il Pastor Fido'' 1647 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
