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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] |
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] |
Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw
Elizabeth, Lady Wardlaw (1677–1727) was a Scottish poet and the reputed author of the ballad ''Hardyknute''. Biography Elizabeth was born on 15 April 1677, the second daughter of Sir Charles Halket, baronet, of Pitfirran, Fife, and his wife Janet, daughter of Sir Patrick Murray. In 1696 she married Sir Henry Wardlaw, 4th Baronet, of Pitreavie and together they had three daughters and a son. The ballad of ''Hardyknute'', published in 1719 as an old poem, was supposed to have been discovered by her in a vault at Dunfermline, but no manuscript was ever produced. In 1724 Allan Ramsay included the poem in ''The Ever Green'', his anthology of Scottish poetry. In the 1767 edition of Percy's '' Reliques'' the poem was ascribed to Lady Wardlaw. The ballad of ''Sir Patrick Spens "Sir Patrick Spens" is one of the most popular of the Child Ballads (No. 58) (Roud 41), and is of Scottish origin. It is a maritime ballad about a disaster at sea. Background ''Sir Patrick Spens'' rema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Poetry
Persian literature ( fa, ادبیات فارسی, Adabiyâte fârsi, ) comprises oral compositions and written texts in the Persian language and is one of the world's oldest literatures. It spans over two-and-a-half millennia. Its sources have been within Greater Iran including present-day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and Turkey, regions of Central Asia (such as Tajikistan) and South Asia where the Persian language has historically been either the native or official language. For example, Rumi, one of the best-loved Persian poets, born in Balkh (in modern-day Afghanistan) or Wakhsh (in modern-day Tajikistan), wrote in Persian and lived in Konya (in modern-day Turkey), at that time the capital of the Seljuks in Anatolia. The Ghaznavids conquered large territories in Central and South Asia and adopted Persian as their court language. There is thus Persian literature from Iran, Mesopotamia, Azerbaijan, the wider Caucasus, Turkey, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Tajikista ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1601 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton Works Great Britain * Nicholas Breton, ''A Divine Poeme''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Robert Chester, ''Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint'' * Henoch Clapham, ''Aelohim-triune'' * Robert Jones: ** ''The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts'' ** ''The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres'' * Gervase Markham, ''Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus'' * Thomas Morley: ** ''First Booke of Ayres'' ** ''The Triumphes of Oriana'' * William Shakespeare, ''The Phoenix and the Turtle'' published in Robert Chester's ''Loves Martyr'' * John Weever, ''The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saib Tabrizi
Saib Tabrizi ( fa, صائب تبریزی, ''Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī'', , ''Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib''), was a Persian poet and one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ghazal. Besides writing in Persian, Saib was known to have written 17 ''ghazals'' and ''molammaʿs'' in his native Azerbaijani Turkic. Saib was born in Tabriz, and educated in Isfahan and at some time around 1626, he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shah Jahan. He stayed for a time in Kabul and in Kashmir, returning home after several years abroad. After his return, the emperor of Persia, Shah Abbas II, bestowed upon him the title ''King of Poets''. Saib's reputation is based primarily on some 300,000 couplets, including his epic poem ''Qandahār-nāma'' (“The Campaign Against Qandahār”). (The city of Qandahār or Kandahar in today's Afghanistan was in Saib Tabrizi's lifetime a long-standi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1625 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *John Milton enters Christ's College, Cambridge. Works published Great Britain * Thomas Heywood: ** Translator, ''Art of Love'', publication year uncertain; published anonymously; translated from Ovid, ''Ars amatoria''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * ''A Funeral Elegie: Upon the much lamented death of'' ..''King James'' * Francis Quarles, ''Sions Sonnets'' (see also ''Sions Elegies'' 1624) Other * Honorat de Bueil de Racan, ''Les Bergeries'', France * Honoré d'Urfé, ''Sylvanire'', France Births Death years link to the corresponding "earin poetry" article: * Miguel de Barrios (died 1701), Spanish poet and historian * Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (died 1698), Irish language poet * John Caryll (died 1711), English poet, dramatist and diplomat * Samuel Chappuzeau (died 1701), Fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques De Coras
Jacques de Coras (1625 – 24 December 1677) was a French poet born in Toulouse. Grandson of the Huguenot jurist Jean de Coras, he was raised in the Protestant Reformed Church of France. After serving as a cadet in the military, he studied theology, and exercised the functions of a Protestant minister in Guyenne. He was, during the same time, associated with the person of Turenne Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de Turenne (11 September 161127 July 1675), commonly known as Turenne , was a French general and one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France. The most illustrious member of the ..., and he converted to Catholicism. He mixed to good effect his poetic studies and his religious work. He died in 1677. Works *''la Conversion de Jacques de Coras, dédiée à nosseigneurs du clergé de France''; 1665, Paris, in-12. *''Jonas, ou Ninive pénitente''; 1663, Paris, in-12. *Three poems, ''Josué, Samson,'' and ''David'', were published under the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1604 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works Great Britain * Sir William Alexander: ** ''Aurora''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ** ''A Paraenesis to the Prince'' (to Henry, Prince of Wales) * Thomas Bateson, ''Cantus'' (the first English madrigals) * Nicholas Breton, ''The Passionate Shepheard; or, The Shepheardes Love'', written under the pen name "Bonerto" * Thomas Churchyard, ''Churchyards Good Will'', on the death of John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury * John Cooke, ''Epigrames'' * Thomas Dekker, ''Newes from Graves-end: Sent to Nobody'', published anonymously * Michael Drayton: ** ''Moyses in a Map of his Miracles'' ** ''The Owle'' ** ''A Paean Triumphall'' * Samuel Rowlands, ''Looke to it: for, Ile Stabbe Ye'' * Anthony Skoloker, ''Daiphantus, or the Passions of Love'' Other * Bernardo de Balbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Coypeau D'Assoucy
Charles Coypeau (16 October 1605 Paris – 29 October 1677, Paris) was a French musician and burlesque poet. In the mid-1630s he began using the ''nom de plume'' D'Assouci or Dassoucy. Life From the time he was eight or nine, Charles Coypeau began running away from home. His father then placed him in the Jesuit Louis-le-Grand, College of Clermont, where he acquired a solid education in classics and Christian doctrine; but the boy was always sneaking away to watch the puppeteers and organ grinders on the Pont-Neuf. These contacts with players and musicians were a major factor in the formation of Charles's musical and poetic talents, and encouraged his bent for the "burlesque". By the time he was 17, Charles had left Paris and had begun his long life of wandering, eking out a livelihood by composing, singing for local elites, and teaching the lute. By his mid-20s, he apparently had made his way to Italy; by the early 1630s, he had mastered the Italian theorbo, an instrument still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Mystic
The Friends of God (German: Gottesfreunde; or gotesvriunde) was a medieval mystical group of both ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church (though it nearly became a separate sect) and a center of German mysticism. It was founded between 1339 and 1343 during the Avignon Papacy of the Western Schism, a time of great turmoil for the Catholic Church. The Friends of God were originally centered in Basel, Switzerland and were also fairly important in Strasbourg and Cologne. Some late-nineteenth century writers made large claims for the movement, seeing it both as influential in fourteenth-century mysticism and as a precursor of the Protestant Reformation. Modern studies of the movement have emphasised the derivative and often second-rate character of its mystical literature, and its limited impact on medieval literature in Germany. Some of the movement's ideas still prefigured the Protestant reformation. Name The name "Friends of God" may have been influenced by vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
