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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] |
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] |
Thomas Beedome
Thomas Beedome (died c.1641) was an English poet. He appears to have died at an early age, and of his life nothing is known. Works Beedome was the author of a short volume of verses, posthumously published in 1641 under the title of ''Poems Divine and Humane''. The collection was edited by Henry Glapthorne, the dramatist and poet, who prefixed a short prose address "to the reader", which is followed by commendatory verses of Ed. May, Glapthorne (in English and Latin), W. C amberlaine ? Em. D. (two copies), H. S., H. P., R. W., J. S., Tho. Nabbes, and Fran. Beedome (the author's brother). The chief poem in the collection is entitled ''The Jealous Lover, or the Constant Maid'', in six-line stanzas. Songs, epistles, epigrams, elegies, and devotional poems follow. Two epigrams are addressed "to Sir Henry Wotten, Knight", another is in praise of George Wither. There are also epigrams "to his deare friend William Harrington" "to the heroicall Captaine Thomas James" (two), and "to the mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Wycherley
William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 16411 January 1716) was an England, English dramatist of the English Restoration, Restoration period, best known for the plays ''The Country Wife'' and ''The Plain Dealer (play), The Plain Dealer''. Early life Wycherley was born at Clive, Shropshire, Clive near Shrewsbury, Shropshire, although his birthplace has been said to be Trench Farm to the north near Wem later the birthplace of another writer, John Ireland (writer), John Ireland, who was said to have been adopted by Wycherley's widow following the death of Ireland's parents. He was baptised on 8 April 1641 at Whitchurch, Hampshire, son of Daniel Wycherley (1617–1697) and his wife Bethia, daughter of William Shrimpton. His family was settled on a moderate estate of about £600 a year and his father was in the business service of the Marquess of Winchester. Wycherley lived during much of his childhood at Trench Farm, one his paternal family's properties, then spent some three years of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Croatian Poetry
Croatian literature refers to literary works attributed to the medieval and modern culture of the Croats, Croatia, and Croatian. Besides the modern language whose shape and orthography was standardized in the late 19th century, it also covers the oldest works produced within the modern borders of Croatia, written in Church Slavonic and Medieval Latin, as well as vernacular works written in Čakavian and Kajkavian dialects. History Croatian medieval literature Croatian medieval prose is similar to other European medieval literature of the time. The oldest testaments to Croatian literacy are dated to the 11th and 12th centuries, and Croatian medieval literature lasts until the middle of the 16th century. Some elements of medieval forms can be found even in 18th century Croatian literature, which means that their influence had been stronger in Croatia than in the rest of Europe. Early Croatian literature was inscribed on stone tablets, hand-written on manuscripts, and printed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1714 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * March – The Scriblerus Club, an informal group of literary friends, is formed by Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Gay, John Arbuthnot (at whose London house they meet), Thomas Parnell, Henry St. John and Robert Harley. * End – Venetian sea-captain Julije Balović begins compilation of the ''Perast Chronicle'', a collection of epic poetry. Works published United Kingdom * John Danforth (poet), "A Poem, Upon the Much Honoured ..Mrs. Maria Mather", English, Colonial America * William Diaper, ''An Imitation of the Seventeenth Epistle of the First Book of Horace'' * Laurence Eusden, ''A Letter to Mr. Addison, on the King's Accession to the Throne'' * Abel Evans, ''Prae-existence: A poem, in imitation of Milton'' * John Gay: ** ''The Shepherd's Week'' (pastoral) ** ''The Fan'' * Samuel Jones, ''Poetical Miscellanies on Several Occasi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerolim Kavanjin
Jerolim Kavanjin (Italian: Girolamo Cavagnini) (4 February 1641 – 29 November 1714) was a Croatian language poet from Split then in Republic of Venice, today in Croatia. He was born into a wealthy and noble family of Split, as a descendant of Croaticised Italian family of Cavagnini. Kavanjin rose to prominence at the same time as Ignjat Đurđević: at the beginning of the 18th century. He was married to the sister of John Peter Marchi. In 1703 Kavanjin became a member of the Illyrian Academy Marchi founded in 1703. In his summer mansion on Sutivan, on the island of Brač, where he retired after military and legislative career, Kavanjin wrote the most voluminas poetical work in the whole Croatian literature (approx. 32 500 verses): '' Poviest vanđelska bogatoga a nesretna Epuluna i ubogoga a čestita Lazara'', usually referred to by the later editors, according to the subtitle in the original, as ''Bogatstvo i uboštvo''. This religious-philosophical epic is poetically incons ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
1628 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain * John Clavell, ''A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Phineas Fletcher, 'Brittain's Ida'', published anonymously; has been attributed to Edmund Spenser and Giles Fletcher the younger * Robert Gomersall, ''The Levites Revenge'' * Robert Hayman, ''Qvodlibets'' ("What you will"), the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada, written by the Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland * Thomas May, translator, ''Virgil's Georgicks Englished'' * Henry Reynolds, ''Torquato Tasso's Aminta Englisht'' * George Wither, ''Britain's Remembrancer: Containing a narration of the plague lately past'' (see also ''Haleluiah'' 1641) Other * Luis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Wither
George Wither (11 June 1588 O.S. (21 June 1588 NS) – 2 May 1667 O.S. (12 May 1667 NS)) was a prolific English poet, pamphleteer, satirist and writer of hymns. Wither's long life spanned one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of England, during the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, the Civil War, the Parliamentary period and the Restoration period. Biography Early life Wither was born in Bentworth, near Alton, in the heart of Hampshire, the son of George Wither Senior of that place and his wife, Mary, who was possibly from the family of Hunt. His grandfather, Richard Wither, lived at Manydown in Wootton St Lawrence, where the family had resided since at least 1344. His early schooling took place under Rev. John Greaves, the father of John, Sir Edward and Thomas Greaves. Between the ages of fifteen and seventeen he studied at Magdalen College, Oxford. Despite his neighbors' advice that his father put him to some mechanic trade, he was sent to one of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Urquhart
Sir Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660) was a Scottish aristocrat, writer, and translator. He is best known for his translation of the works of French Renaissance writer François Rabelais to English. Biography Urquhart was born to Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Christian Elphinstone, daughter of Alexander Elphinstone, 4th Lord Elphinstone. At the age of eleven he attended King's College, University of Aberdeen. Afterwards he toured the Continent, returning in 1636. In 1639, he participated in the Royalist uprising known as the Trot of Turriff; he was knighted by Charles I at Whitehall for his support. In 1641 he published his first book, a volume of epigrams. Urquhart's father died in 1642, leaving behind a large estate encumbered by larger debts. As the eldest son, Urquhart was from that time on harassed by creditors. He left for the Continent in order to economize, but returned in 1645 and published ''Trissotetras'', a mathematical treatise. In 1648, Urquhart participated in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
