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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] |
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] |
1615 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 23 – English poet John Donne becomes an ordained minister in the Church of England. Works published Great Britain * John Andrewes, ''The Anatomie of Basenesse; or, The Foure Quarters of a Knave''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Richard Brathwaite, published under the name "Misosukos" to his friend "Philokrates", ''A Strappado for the Divell'' * George Chapman, ''Twenty-four Bookes of Homers Odisses'', publication year uncertain, Books 1–12 from ''Homers Odysses'' 1614 (see also ''Seaven Bookes of the Iliades of Homer'' 1598, ''Homer Prince of Poets'' 1609, ''The Iliads of Homer'' 1611, ''The Whole Workes of Homer'' 1616) * Thomas Collins, ''The Teares of Love; or, Cupids Progresse'' * Samuel Daniel, ' * Sir John Harrington, ''Epigrams Both Pleasa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1668 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * John Dryden becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Sir William Davenant. Dryden held the office until 1688 when, after James II of England was deposed, the poet refused to swear allegiance to the new monarchs and was replaced by Thomas Shadwell. Dryden was the only laureate not to die in office until Andrew Motion in 1999. Shadwell held the office until his death in 1692.) Works published * Sir John Denham, ''Poems and Translations: With The Sophy'', the first collected edition of Denham's poems * John Dryden, ''Defence of an Essay of Dramatic Poesy'', criticismMark Van Doren, ''John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry'', p 52, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960") * Richard Flecknoe, ''Sir William D'Avenant's Voyage to the Other World: with his Adventures in the Poets Elizium: A p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Del Castillo Y Saavedra
Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra (10 July 1616 – 2 February 1668) was a Spanish Baroque painter, sculptor, and poet. Biography Antonio del Castillo y Saavedra was born at Córdoba, Spain. He trained in painting under his father Agustín del Castillo, and after his death by a little-known religious painter named Ignacio Aedo Calderón from 1631 to 1634. Later he was taught in Seville by Francisco de Zurbarán and by his uncle Juan del Castillo, who was also teacher of Cano, Murillo and De Moya. In 1635 he returned to Córdoba, where he painted frescoes Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster ... and oil paintings (such as those in the church of Santa Marina). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1699 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * English poet Matthew Prior, while a secretary in the English embassy in France (since 1697), mentions in letters that he has been dining with Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, a critic and poet (greatly admired in England for his verse) whose poems Prior had lampooned in 1695 and would again satirize in 1704. "Boileau says I have more genius than all the academy," Prior wrote to Edward Villiers, 1st Earl of Jersey in July. Villiers replied, "If you don't come quickly away, Boileau and that flattering country will spoil you." In his 1704 satire, Prior wrote: :: ..''Old friend, old foe, for such we are'' ::''Alternate, as the chance of peace and war)'' Works * Samuel Garth, ''The Dispensary'' * John Hopkins, ''Milton's Paradise Lost imitated in Rhyme. In the Fourth, Sixth, and Ninth Books: Containing the Primitive Loves. The Battel of the Angels. The Fall o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Beaumont
Joseph Beaumont (13 March 1616 – 23 November 1699) was an English clergyman, academic and poet. Life The son of John Beaumont, clothier, and of Sarah Clarke, his wife, he was born at Hadleigh, Suffolk, on 13 March 1616. He was educated at Hadleigh grammar school, and proceeded to Cambridge in 1631, where he was admitted as a pensioner to Peterhouse, Cambridge. He took his degree of B.A. in 1634, and became a fellow of his college in 1636, the master then being John Cosin. Richard Crashaw, the poet, had now passed from Pembroke College to Peterhouse, and in 1638 he and Beaumont received their degree of M.A. together In 1644 he was one of the royalist fellows ejected from Cambridge, and he retired to Hadleigh, where he sat down to write his epic poem of ''Psyche''. Beaumont fared particularly well during the Commonwealth. From 1643 he held the rectory of Kelshall in Hertfordshire, as non-resident, and in 1646 he added to this, or exchanged it for, the living of Elm-cum-Emnet ... [...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] |
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin
Georg Rudolf Weckherlin (15 September 1584 – 13 February 1653) was a German poet and diplomat. Influenced by the French La Pléiade, his poetry introduced Renaissance forms and themes previously unknown in German verse. In his political career, Weckherlin worked in the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate, serving on diplomatic missions to France and England. Weckherlin would eventually come to be employed by the English crown as an expert on foreign languages and cryptography, and continued to serve in this position in the Commonwealth of England. Biography Georg Weckherlin was born at Stuttgart. After studying law in Tübingen he settled at Stuttgart, and, as secretary to Duke Johann Friedrich of Württemberg, was employed on diplomatic missions to France and England. Between 1620 and 1624 he lived in England in the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate, and from this connection came to be employed in various positions in the English government. He was chief ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agrippa D'Aubigné
Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (, 8 February 155229 April 1630) was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem ''Les Tragiques'' (1616) is widely regarded as his masterpiece. In a book about his Catholic contemporary Jean de La Ceppède, English poet Keith Bosley has called d'Aubigné, "the epic poet of the Protestant cause," during the French Wars of Religion. Bosley added, however, that after d'Aubigné's death, he, "was forgotten until the Romantics rediscovered him."Keith Bosley (1983), ''From the Theorems of Master Jean de La Ceppède: LXX Sonnets'', page 4. Life Born at the Aubigné Château of Saint-Maury near Pons in the present day Charente-Maritime. The Poet's father was Jean d'Aubigné, who was involved in the 1560 Huguenot Amboise conspiracy to seize power by staging a palace coup, kidnapping King Francis II of France, and arresting his Catholic advisors. After the defeat of the plot, d'Aubigné's father strengthened his Calvinist sympathies b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1595 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 * Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's ''Pandosto'' 1588 * William Alabaster, ''Roxana, tragædia'' (approximate date) * Barnabe Barnes, * Richard Barnfield, ''Cynthia'' * Nicholas Breton, * Thomas Campion, ''Poemata'' * George Chapman, published anonymously, , allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna * Thomas Churchyard, * Samuel Daniel, (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also 1599, ''Works'' 1601 (six books), and 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books) * Thomas Edwards, ''Cephalus and Procris'', ''Narcissus'' Lucie-Smith, Edward, ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books. * Stephen Gosson, , published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem * Thomas Lodge, ''A Fig for M ... [...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 Southwell (Jesuit)
Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595), also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English people, English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet, hymnodist, and clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England. After being arrested and imprisoned in 1592, and intermittently tortured and questioned by Richard Topcliffe, Southwell was eventually tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See. On 21 February 1595, Father Southwell was hanged at Tyburn, London, Tyburn. In 1970, he was canonised by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Early life in England He was born at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England. Southwell, the youngest of eight children, was brought up in a family of the Norfolk gentry. Despite their Catholic sympathies, the Southwells had profited considerably from King Henry VIII's Suppression of the Monasteries. Robert was third son of Richard Southwell of Horsham St. Faith's, Norfolk, by his first wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
