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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] |
Hamzah Fansuri
Hamzah Fansuri ( Jawi: حمزه فنسوري ; also spelled Hamzah Pansuri, d. 1590 ?) was a 16th-century Sumatran Sufi writer, and the first writer known to write mystical panentheistic ideas in the Malay language. He wrote poetry as well as prose. Life Information on Hamzah's life comes largely from the ''takhallus bait'' (pen-name stanza) that ends his poetry (''syair''), as well as from the work of his disciple Hasan Fansuri and commentaries on Hamzah's poems. However, many of his biographical details are uncertain. His name indicates that he may be from Barus (also known as Fansur to the Arabs), or have spent a large part of his life there. A link to the Siamese Ayutthaya (''Shahr-i-Naw'') has also been proposed, although it may be that he travelled to Ayutthaya rather than that being his birthplace.G.W.J. Drewes and L.F. Brakel (eds. and tr.). ''The poems of Hamzah Fansuri''. Dordrecht and Cinnaminson: Foris Publications, 1986. , pp-3–18 He was inducted into a Sufi order ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1554 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published France * Pierre de Ronsard: ** ''Bocage''Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ** ''Meslanges''Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, * Hugh Salel, ''Tombeau poétique de Hugues Salel'' a posthumous edition prepared by Olivier de Magny of Salel's translation of Books 11 and 12 of the ''Iliad'' of Homer; Paris: Vincent Sertenas Great Britain * Miles Huggarde, ''The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar'', written 1549; non-elite opposition to the ReformationCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ''The Fourthe Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Lov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1591 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for lifeHadfield, Andrew''The Cambridge Companion to Spenser'' "Chronology", Cambridge University Press, 2001, , p xix, retrieved via Google Books, September 24, 2009 (see Spenser's ''Complaints'', in "Works" section below) Works published Great Britain * Nicholas Breton, ''Brittons Bowre of Delights'' * Thomas Campion, ''Astrophel and Stella'' Lucie-Smith, Edward, ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books * Michael Drayton, ''The Harmonie of the Church'' (republished 1610 under the title ''A Heavenly Harmonie'') * Abraham Fraunce: ** ''The Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel'' ** ''The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch'', Part 1 adapted from Torquato Tasso's ''Aminta''; Part 2 a revision of Fraunce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Herrick (poet)
Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for ''Hesperides'', a book of poems. This includes the '' carpe diem'' poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Early life Born in Cheapside, London, Robert Herrick was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith."Robert Herrick," Poets.org, Academy of American Poets, Web, 20 May 2011. He was named after an uncle, Robert Herrick (or Heyrick), a prosperous Member of Parliament (MP) for Leicester, who had bought the land Greyfriars Abbey stood on after Henry VIII's dissolution in the mid-16th century. Nicholas Herrick died in a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old (whether this was suicide remains unclear). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1637 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * After August 16 – Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson (on the death of Davenant in 1668, he is succeeded by John Dryden) Works published * Sir William Alexander, ''Recreations with the Muses'', contains ''Four Monarchicke Tragedies, Doomesday, A Paraenesis to Prince Henry'' (all previously published), and ''Jonathan: An heroicke poem'' * Arthur Johnston, Scottish poet writing in Latin ** ''Psalmorum Davidis paraphrasis poetica et canticorum evangelicorum'', translation of the Psalms ** ''Deliciae poetarum Scotorum huius aevi illustrium'', edited anthology * Thomas Jordan, ''Poeticall Varieties; or, Varietie of Fancies'' including "Coronemus nos Rosis antequam marcescant" ("Let us drink and be merry") * Ralph Knevet, ''Funerall Elegies'', elegies on Lady Katherine Paston * Shackerley Marmion, ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays ''Every Man in His Humour'' (1598), '' Volpone, or The Fox'' (c. 1606), '' The Alchemist'' (1610) and '' Bartholomew Fair'' (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642)."Ben Jonson", ''Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge'', volume 10, p. 388. His ancestor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1631 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Works France * Georges de Scudéry ''Œuvres poétiques'' ("Poetic Works"), * Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac: ** ''Aristippe'' ou ''De la cour'' ** ''Le Prince'', eulogy on King Louis XIII of France Great Britain * Charles Aleyn, ''The Battailes of Crescey, and Poctiers''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Richard Braithwait: ** ''The English Gentleman'' ** ''The English Gentlewoman'' * William L'Isle, ''The Faire Aethiopian'', published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, ''Aethiopica'') * David Lloyd, ''The Legend of Captain Jones'', Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn (Part 2 in 1648) Other * Francisco de Quevedo, ''La aguja de navegar cultos con la receta para hacer Soledades en un día'', satire attacking poets who use g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1572 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard. Works published France * Olivier de Magny, ''Les Amours d'Olivier de Magny et quelques odes de luy'', B. Rigaud, Paris, posthumously published France * Rémy Belleau, ''Bergerie'', mix of prose and verse, including ''Avril'' (a revised and expanded edition in which the "seconde journée was added);first edition 1565; FranceMagnusson, Magnus, general editor, ''Chambers Biographical Dictionary'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, * Pierre de Ronsard, ''La Franciade''Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, Au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Donne
John Donne ( ; 22 January 1572 – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a clergy, cleric in the Church of England. Under royal patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). He is considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His poetical works are noted for their metaphorical and sensual style and include sonnets, love poems, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs and satires. He is also known for his sermons. Donne's style is characterised by abrupt openings and various paradoxes, ironies and dislocations. These features, along with his frequent dramatic or everyday speech rhythms, his tense syntax and his tough eloquence, were both a reaction against the smoothness of conventional Elizabethan poetry and an adaptation into English of European baroque and mannerist techniques. His early career was marked by poetry that bore immen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1616 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 1 – King James I of England grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him ''de facto'' poet laureate. Works published Great Britain * William Browne, ''Britannia's Pastorals. The Second Booke'' (see also Book 1, 1613; both books published together 1625) * George Chapman, translator: ** ''The Divine Poem of Musaeus. First of all Books'', translated from Musaeus', ''De Herone et Leandro'' (Hero and Leander) ** ''The Whole Works of Homer'', publication year uncertain (see also ''Seaven Bookes of the Iliades of Homer'' 1598, ''Homer Prince of Poets'' 1609, ''The Iliads of Homer'' 1611, ''Homers Odysses'' 1614, ''Twenty-four Bookes of Homers Odisses'' 1615) * Ben Jonson: ** ''To Celia'' ** ''On my first Sonne'' ** ''The Workes of Beniamin Ionson'' ( the first folio collection, including ''Epigrams'' and ''The Forest'') * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1593 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, ''The Phoeix Nest'', anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume * Barnabe Barnes, ''Parthenophil and Parthenophe'', contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes * Anthony Chute, ''Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife'' * Henry Constable, ', written but unpublished at this timeBritish Library, Harleian Collection MS 7553. * Michael Drayton, ''Idea: the'' ' ''garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs'' * Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, ''Licia, or Poemes of Love'' * Robert Henryson, published anonymously, ''The Testament of Cresseid'', first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532 * Thomas Lodge, ' * Henry Lok, ''Sundry Christian Passions Contained in T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
