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1624 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Anonymous, ''Loves Garland; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchers, and Gloves'', anthologyCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * George Chapman, translator, ''Batrachomyomachia'', publication year uncertain; the original work had been wrongly ascribed to Homer in antiquity; the book contains hymns and epigrams also not written by Homer * Thomas Heywood, ''Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge Women'', partly in verse * Francis Quarles: ** ''Job Militant: With meditations divine and morall'' ** ''Sions Elegies, Wept by Jeremie the Prophet'' (see also ''Sions Sonnets'' 1625) Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * August 22 – Jean Renaud de Segrais (died 1701), French poet and novelist * October 26 – D ... [...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] |
Johannes Scheffler
Angelus Silesius (9 July 1677), born Johann Scheffler and also known as Johann Angelus Silesius, was a German Catholic priest and physician, known as a mystic and religious poet. Born and raised a Lutheran, he adopted the name ''Angelus'' (Latin for "angel" or "heavenly messenger") and the epithet ''Silesius'' (" Silesian") on converting to Catholicism in 1653. While studying in the Netherlands, he began to read the works of medieval mystics and became acquainted with the works of the German mystic Jacob Böhme through Böhme's friend, Abraham von Franckenberg. Silesius's mystical beliefs caused tension between him and Lutheran authorities and led to his eventual conversion to Catholicism. He took holy orders under the Franciscans and was ordained a priest in 1661. Ten years later, in 1671, he retired to a Jesuit house where he remained for the rest of his life. An enthusiastic convert and priest, Silesius worked to convince German Protestants in Silesia to return to the Roman C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th Century In Literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century. Events 1501 **Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid''. He also publishes an edition of Petrarch's ''Le cose volgari'' and first adopts his dolphin and anchor device. 1502 **Aldine Press editions appear of Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', Herodotus's ''Histories'' and Sophocles. 1507 **King James IV grants a patent for the first printing press in Scotland to Walter Chapman and Andrew Myllar. 1508 **April 4 – John Lydgate's ''The Complaint of the Black Knight'' becomes the first book printed in Scotland. **The earliest known printed edition of the chivalric romance '' Amadis de Gaula'', as edited and expanded by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, is published in Castilian at Zaragoza. **Elia Levita completes writing the ''Bovo-Bukh''. 1509 **Desiderius Erasmus writes ''The Praise of Folly'' while stayi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16th 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 (including pre-Columbian works). Births and deaths England * John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) * George Gascoigne (1535–1578) * Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) * Edmund Spenser (1552– 1599) * Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) * Christopher Marlowe ( 1564–1593) * William Shakespeare ( 1564– 1616) * John Donne (c. 1572–1631) * Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637) * Robert Herrick (1591–1674) * George Herbert (1593–1633) * Young William (c. 1395-1433) France * Jean Molinet (1435–1507), French poet, chronicler, and composer * Olivier de la Marche (1426–1501), French poet and author "Olivier de la Marche" article, ''Catholic Encyclopedia'', 1914, retrieved April 19, 2009 * Clément Marot ( 1496–1544) * Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) * Bonaventure des Périers (c. 1501 – 1544) * Louise Labe ( 1526–1566) * Mauri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns (the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1570 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley * Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este. Works published * Thomas Churchyard, ''A Discourse of Rebellion''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Lodovico Castelvetro, ' ("The Poetics of Aristotle in the Vulgar Language"), called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's ''Poetics''Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications * Thomas Preston, ', a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith Births Death years link to the corres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuan Zhongdao
Yuan Zhongdao (袁中道, Wade-Giles ''Yüan Chung-tao''; 1570–1624) was a Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official was born in Kung-an in Hu-kuang. History He shares his fame with two other brothers, Yuan Zongdao (1560–1600) and Yuan Hongdao (1568–1610); they are collectively known as the Three Yuan Brothers. The three brothers dominated the literature of the period. From a family of financial means, they printed and distributed their own works. The youngest of the brothers, Yuan Zhongdao, took years in his pursuit of a civil-service examination degree. The brothers were all openly ambivalent about social position. Yuan Zhongdao spent quantities of money on boats for his extended excursions. His brothers and their families were haunted by disease. Yuan Zhongdao's own life was a story of breakdown at the cumulative stress of family deaths and repeated failure at the civil service examination. Yuan Zhongdao's principal health problem was perhaps tuberculo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Howard (playwright)
Sir Robert Howard (January 1626 – 3 September 1698) was an English playwright and politician. He fought for the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. Life He was born the 6th son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire and his wife Elizabeth. As the 18-year-old son of a Royalist family, he fought at the battle of Cropredy Bridge and was knighted for the bravery he showed there. In the years after the English Civil War his royalist sympathies led to his imprisonment at Windsor Castle in 1658. After the Restoration, he quickly rose to prominence in political life, with several appointments to posts which brought him influence and money. He was Member of Parliament for Stockbridge in the Cavalier Parliament (1661 to 1679) and for Castle Rising (1679 to 1681 and 1689 to 1698), and believed in a balance of parliament and monarchy. All his life he continued in a series of powerful positions; in 1671 he became secretary to the Treasury, and in 1673 auditor of the Exchequer. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1700 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Sir Richard Blackmore — ''A Satyr Against Wit'', published anonymously; an attack on the "Wits", including John Dryden * Samuel Cobb — ''Poetae Britannici'' his most famous poem, a survey of previous English poetry in a light style, clear diction, and imagery that later critics like John Nichols considered "sublime" * Daniel Defoe — ''The Pacificator'', published anonymously, verse satire in the literary war between the "Men of Sense" and the "Men of Wit" * John Dryden — ''Fables, Ancient and Modern'', the poet's final anthology * William King — ''The Transactioneer With Some of his Philosophical Fancies'', published anonymously, a satire on Sir Hans Sloane, editor of the ''Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'' * John Pomfret — ''Reason'' * Nahum Tate — ''Panacea, a poem upon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Howard (playwright)
Edward Howard (baptised 1624 – 1712) was an English dramatist and author of the Restoration era. He was the fifth son of Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Berkshire, and one of four playwriting brothers: Sir Robert Howard, Colonel Henry Howard, and James Howard were the others. The brothers were sometimes confused in their own era, and Edward was sometimes given credit for his brother Henry's play ''The United Kingdoms''. Biography Edward Howard was christened on 2 November 1624, at St. Martin-in-the-Fields. Howard had a reputation as an exacting and difficult author. In their famous satire '' The Rehearsal'', the Duke of Buckingham and his collaborators mocked Howard for being demanding and contentious during the actors' rehearsals of his plays. Howard himself acknowledged his reputation; he wrote a Prologue to his ''Man of Newmarket'' in which the actors Robert Shatterell and Joseph Haynes criticize Howard for not allowing cuts or improvisations in his dramas. Howard complai ... [...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] |
1677 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * In Denmark, Anders Bording ceases publication of ''Den Danske Meercurius'' ("The Danish Mercury"), a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author; founded in 1666Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Works published * John Cleveland, ''Clievelandi Vindiciae; or, Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles'', poetry and prose (see also ''J. Cleaveland Revived'' 1659)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Dryden, ''Apology for Heroic Poetry and Poetic License''Mark Van Doren, ''John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry'', p 40, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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