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1626 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 18 – Poet Abraham Holland dies of the Great Plague of London having on the previous day handed over the manuscript of his poems later published as ''Hollandi Posthuma'' (including one on the Plague) to his brother, the printer Henry Holland. Works published Great Britain * John Kennedy (poet), ''Calanthrop and Lucilla'' (republished 1631 as ''The Ladies Delight; or, The English Gentlewomans History of Calanthrop and Lucilla'') * Thomas May, ''Pharsalia'', Books 1–3 (published in 10 books in 1627; see also ''A Continuation'' 1630) * George Sandys, translator, ''Ovid's Metamorphosis Englished'', complete edition, translated from Ovid's ''Metamorphoses''; see also ''The First Five Books of Ovid's Metamorphosis'' 1621; revised 1632 with allegorical commentary and a translation of the first book of the ''Aeneid'' of Virgil) * Sir W ... [...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] |
1632 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published * Arthur Johnston, ''Epigrammata'', Scottish poet writing in Latin * John Lyly, ''Alexander and Campaspe'' * John Milton, "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare", printed anonymously in the Second Folio of William Shakespeare's plays * Johannes Narssius, ''Gustavidos sive de bello Sueco-austriaco libri tres'' * Francis Quarles, ''Divine Fancies: Digested into epigrammes, meditations and observations'' Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * January 1 – Katherine Philips, née Fowler (died 1664), London-born Anglo-Welsh poet * August 13 – François-Séraphin Régnier-Desmarais (died 1713), French ecclesiastic, grammarian, diplomat and poet in French, Spanish and Latin * Étienne Pavillon (died 1705), French lawyer and poet * Rahman Baba (died 1706), Indian Pashto poet * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1685 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Colonial America * Cotton Mather, ''An Elegy'' ..''on Nathanael Collins'', English Colonial America (Massachusetts)Ludwig, Richard M., and Clifford A. Nault, Jr., ''Annals of American Literature: 1602–1983'', 1986, New York: Oxford University Press Germany * Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German: ** ''Kuhlwasser in grosser Hitze des Creutzes'', hymns; published in Rudolstadt ** ''Tägliches Morgen- Mittags- und Abendopfer'', hymns; published in Rudolstadt Great Britain * Henry Bold, translator, ''Latine Songs, with their English: and Poems'', includes "Chevy Chase", a ballad, and Sir John Suckling's poem "Why so pale and wan fond lover?" * John Cutts, (later Baron Cutts), ''La Muse de Cavalier; or, An Apology for such gentleman as make poetry their diversion, not their business in a letter by a scholar of Mars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerard Brandt
Gerard Brandt (25 July 1626, Amsterdam – 12 October 1685, Amsterdam) was a Dutch preacher, playwright, poet, church historian, biographer and naval historian. A well-known writer in his own time, his works include a ''Life of Michiel de Ruyter'' (1687, ''Het Leven en bedryf van den Heere Michiel de Ruiter'' - an important source on the admiral's life) and a ''Historie der vermaerde zee- en koopstadt Enkhuisen'' (1666, ''Geschiedenis van Enkhuizen'' - still an important source for that city's early history). Life Brandt was the son of the clockmaker Gerard Brandt and his wife Neeltje Jeroens. Aged 17 Gerard junior wrote the play ''De Veinzende Torquatus'', later put on in the Amsterdamse Schouwburg, of which his father was regent. When he later became a well-known preacher and serious scholar, he did not want his youthful works and errors to be remembered. He was best known for his "grafrede" on Pieter Cornelisz. Hooft in 1647, a translation of Jacques Du Perron's eulogy o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Dryden
'' John Dryden (; – ) was an English poet, literary critic, translator, and playwright who in 1668 was appointed England's first Poet Laureate. He is seen as dominating the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden. Romanticist writer Sir Walter Scott called him "Glorious John". Early life Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints. He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and Parliament. He was a second cousin once removed of Jonathan Swift. As a boy, Dryden lived in the nearby village of Titchmarsh, where it is likely that he received his first education. In 1644 he was sent to Westminst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1698 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works * Aphra Behn – ''Poetical Remains'' * John Hopkins ** ''The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin'' ** ''The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty'' Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * January 3 – Metastasio, born Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi (died 1782), Italian poet and opera librettist * January 10? – Richard Savage (died 1743), English poet * March 22 – John Ellis (died 1791), English scrivener and poet * May 8 – Henry Baker (died 1774), English naturalist, poet and sign-language developer * July 19 – Johann Jakob Bodmer (died 1783), German-language Swiss, author, critic, academic and poet * Approximate date – Alasdair mac Mhaighstir Alasdair (died 1770), Scottish Gael ... [...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] |
1641 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier presented ''Guirlande de Julie'', a manuscript of 41 madrigals to Julie d'Angennes this year (although the manuscript was not published in full until 1729 in poetry); five of the madrigals were written by Sainte-Maure; the other authors were Georges de Scudéry, Germain Habert, Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, Valentin Conrart, Chapelain, Racan, Tallemant des Réaux, Antoine Godeau, Robert Arnauld d'Andilly and Simon Arnauld de Pomponne; France Works published Great Britain * Thomas Beedome, ''Poems Divine, and Humane''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Day, ''The Parliament of Bees'', verse drama, first known edition, published posthumously Lucie-Smith, Edward, ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1634 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *The Duke de Medinaceli forces Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo into a 3-month marriage with Doña Esperanza de Aragón. Works published Great Britain * Richard Brathwaite, ''Anniversaries upon his Panarete'', anonymously published (see also ''Anniversaries'' ..''Continued'' 1635) * Richard Crashaw, ''Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber'', anonymously published * William Habington, ''Castara'', anonymously published * Alexander Ross, ''Virgilii Evangelisantis Christiados'', ''cento'' * Alice Sutcliffe, ''Meditations of Man's Mortalitie: or, A Way to True Blessednesse'', in prose and verse Other * Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay, ''Les Avis et presents'', including a feminist tract, translations, moral essays and verse (revised from the original version, ''Ombre'' 1626; again revised 1641), France * Lope de Vega, Spain, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marie De Gournay
Marie de Gournay (; 6 October 1565, Paris – 13 July 1645) was a French writer, who wrote a novel and a number of other literary compositions, including ''The Equality of Men and Women'' (''Égalité des hommes et des femmes'', 1622) and ''The Ladies' Grievance'' (''Grief des dames'', 1626). She insisted that women should be educated. Gournay was also an editor and commentator of Michel de Montaigne. After Montaigne's death, Gournay edited and published his ''Essays''. Life She was born in Paris in 1565. Her father, Guillaume Le Jars, was treasurer to King Henry III of France. In 1568 he obtained feudal rights to the Gournay estate in Picardy, and in 1573, after he purchased the Neufvy estate, he became Seigneur de Neufvy et de Gournay. The family moved to Gournay-sur-Aronde after her father's sudden death in 1577. Gournay was an autodidact. She studied the humanities and taught herself Latin. Her studies led her to discover the works of Michel de Montaigne. She met him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude De L'Estoile
Claude de L'Estoile (1602, Paris – May 1652) was a French playwright and poet. He was a founder member of the Académie française. Biography Third son of Pierre de L'Estoile he inherited fortune, he devoted himself entirely to poetry and belles-lettres and became one of the first members of the French Academy in 1634 . He is the author of odes and stanzas and two plays, the beautiful slave, tragicomedy published in 1643, and Intrigue tricksters, comedy released in 1644 . A third part, Secretary of St. Innocent, remained unfinished. It also produces two ballets, The Ballet happy shipwreck and Maistre Galimathias represented before the king in 1626, and has also collaborated with François le Métel de Boisrobert, Pierre Corneille, Jean Rotrou and Guillaume Colletet the said parts "of five authors, "The Blind Smyrna and La Comédie des Tuileries, played in 1638. Paul Pellisson Paul Pellisson (30 October 1624 – 7 February 1693) was a French author. Pellisson was born in Bà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1680 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * The Irish poem-book ''Leabhar Cloinne Aodha Buidhe'' is transcribed by Ruairà Ó hUiginn of Sligo at the command of Cormac Ó Neill. * Possible approximate date of composition of the Thai poem ''Kamsuan Samut'', attributed to Si Prat. Works published * Wentworth Dillon, translator, ''Horace's Art of Poetry'', translation from the Latin of Horace's '' Ars Poetica'', including an essay by Edmund WallerCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Dryden and others, translators, ''Ovid's Epistles'' * Thomas Otway, ''The Poet's Complaint of his Muse; or, A Satyr Against '' * John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ''Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable The E. of R—'', published in London, although the book states it was published in "Antwerpen"Web page title"John Wilmot, Earl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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