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1720 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 * Jane Brereton, ''An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr. Addison'', published anonymouslyCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Jonathan Burt, ''A Lamentation Occasion'd by the Great Sickness & Lamented Deaths of Divers Eminent Persons in Springfield'', a jeremiad composed in hymnal meter, describing the benefits of living righteously and calling a recent deadly epidemic evidence of God's displeasure, English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times'' Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, , retrieved via Google Books * Samuel Croxall, ''The Fair Circassian'', verse adaptation of the '' Song of Songs'' * John Gay, ''Poem ... [...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] |
1719 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Nicholas Rowe's widow receives a pension from King George I of Great Britain in recognition of her husband's translation of Lucan's ''Pharsalia'', published complete posthumously this year (dated 1718) with a life of Rowe by James Welwood. Works published United Kingdom * Joseph Addison: ** ''The Old Whig. Numb. I'', published anonymously on March 19 ** ''The Old Whig. Numb. II'', published anonymously on April 2 * John Durant Breval: ** ''Mac-Dermot; or, The Irish Fortune-Hunter'' ** ''Ovid in Masquerade'', published under the pen name "Mr. Joseph Gay" (although the pseudonym was also used by Francis Chute) * Thomas D'Urfey, ''Songs Compleat, Pleasant and Divertive'', in five volumes, the first two consisting of verse written by D'Urfey, a revised edition of ''Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy'', which had been published since 1598; a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danish Poetry
Danish literature () a subset of Scandinavian literature, stretches back to the Middle Ages. The earliest preserved texts from Denmark are runic inscriptions on memorial stones and other objects, some of which contain short poems in alliterative verse. In the late 12th century Saxo Grammaticus wrote ''Gesta Danorum''. During the 16th century, the Lutheran Reformation came to Denmark. During this era, Christiern Pedersen translated the New Testament into Danish and Thomas Kingo composed hymns. Fine poetry was created in the early 17th century by Anders Arrebo (1587–1637). The challenges faced during Denmark's absolute monarchy in 1660 are chronicled in '' Jammersminde'' (Remembered Woes) by Leonora Christina of the Blue Tower. Ludvig Holberg (1684–1754), influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment and Humanism, is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. Neoclassical poetry, drama, and the essay flourished during the 18th century influenced by Frenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ludvig Holberg
Ludvig Holberg, Baron of Holberg (3 December 1684 – 28 January 1754) was a writer, essayist, philosopher, historian and playwright born in Bergen, Norway, during the time of the Dano-Norwegian dual monarchy. He was influenced by Humanism, the Enlightenment and the Baroque. Holberg is considered the founder of modern Danish and Norwegian literature. He is best known for the comedies he wrote in 1722–1723 for the Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen. Holberg's works about natural and common law were widely read by many Danish law students over two hundred years, from 1736 to 1936. Studies and teaching Holberg was the youngest of six brothers. His father, Christian Nielsen Holberg, died before Ludvig was one year old. He was educated in Copenhagen, and was a teacher at the University of Copenhagen for many years. At the same time, he started his successful career as an author, writing the first of a series of comedies. He began to study theology at the University of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ned Ward
Ned Ward (1667 – 20 June 1731), also known as Edward Ward, was a satirical writer and publican in the late 17th and early 18th century in London. His most famous work, ''The London Spy'', appeared in 18 monthly instalments from November 1698. It was described by its author as a "complete survey" of the London scene and published in book form in 1703. Biography Early life Ned Ward was born in 1667 in Oxfordshire. According to Theophilus Cibber, Ward was "a man of low extraction... who never received any regular education", but he is likely to have been educated at one of the Oxfordshire grammar schools.Howard William Troyer, ''Ned Ward of Grubstreet; a study of sub-literary London in the eighteenth century'', Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1946. By 1691 Ward had made his way to London. His first publication, ''The Poet's Ramble After Riches'', describes in humorous Hudibrastic couplets his poverty and his disappointment at not receiving an inheritance. Prose satires that followe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sewell (physician)
George Sewell (died 1726) was an English physician and poet, known as a controversialist and hack writer. Life Born at Windsor, was the eldest son of John Sewell, treasurer and chapter-clerk to the dean and canons of Windsor. He was educated at Eton College: his poem of ''The Favorite, a simile'' embodies reminiscences of his Eton life. He then went to Peterhouse, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1709; for a time he studied medicine under Hermann Boerhaave at the University of Leiden, and about July 1725 he took the degree of M.D. at the University of Edinburgh. Sewell practised at first in London, but little success. He then moved to Hampstead, but encountered competition from other physicians. Under financial pressure he became a booksellers' hack, publishing numerous poems, translations, and political and other pamphlets. Sewell died of consumption at Hampstead, in poverty, on 8 February 1726. On 12 February he was given a pauper's funeral. Works In early life Sewell incli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allan Ramsay (poet)
Allan Ramsay (15 October 16867 January 1758) was a Scottish poet (or ''makar''), playwright, publisher, librarian, and impresario of early Enlightenment Edinburgh. Life and career Allan Ramsay was born at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, to John Ramsay, superintendent of Lord Hopetoun's lead-mines and his wife, Alice Bower, a native of Derbyshire. Allan Ramsay and his elder brother Robert probably attended the parish school at Crawfordjohn. In 1701 Allan was apprenticed to a wig-maker in Edinburgh and received his indentures back by 1709. He married Christian Ross in 1712; a few years after he had established himself as a wig-maker (not as a barber, as has been often said) in the High Street, and soon found himself in comfortable circumstances. They had six children. His eldest child was Allan Ramsay, the portrait painter. Ramsay's first efforts in verse-making were inspired by the meetings of the Easy Club (founded in 1712), of which he was an original member; and in 1715 he becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1718 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * Laurence Eusden made British Poet Laureate Works published * Joseph Addison: ** ''Poems on Several Occasions'', published this year, although the book states "1719"Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, **''The Resurrection'', Latin poetry by Addison with an English translation attributed to Nicholas Amhurst * Nicholas Amhurst ** ''Protestant Popery; or, The Convocation'' (part of the Bangorian Controversy) ** See ''The Resurrection'', above * Cotton Mather, ''Psalterium Americanum: The Book of Psalms in a Translation Exactly Conformed unto the Original, but All in Blank Verse'', a translation in blank verse, with his analysis of poetry, English Colonial AmericaBurt, Daniel S.''The Chronology of American Literature: : America's literary achievements from the colonial era to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1717 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January - ''Three Hours After Marriage'', a play written by Alexander Pope, John Gay and John Arbuthnot, was staged this year. The play satirized poet and critic John Dennis as "Sir Tremendous Longinus the Critic", Lady Winchilsea as "Clinkett the poetess" and Colley Cibber as "Plotwell". The play was met with massive criticism and had a short run, mortifying Pope.Paul, Harry Gilbert ''John Dennis: His Life and Criticism'' p 91, New York: Columbia University Press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010 (see Dennis, Parnell and Pope, in "Works published") Works published * Joseph Addison, John Dryden, Laurence Eusden, Sir Samuel Garth, John Gay, Alexander Pope and Nicholas Rowe, among others, ''Ovid's Metamorphoses''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * John Dura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1716 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *Voltaire is exiled to Tulle. *Poet John Byrom returns to England to teach his own system of shorthand. *Edmund Curll renews his controversy with Matthew Prior, by threatening to publish the poet's works without permission. Works published * Jane Brereton, ''The Fifth Ode of the Fourth Book of Horace Imitated'' * Francis Chute, writing under the pen name "Mr. osephGay", ''The Petticoat: An heroi-comical poem'', often wrongly attributed to John Durant Breval * John Gay, '' Trivia or the Art of Walking the Streets of London'' and ''Court Poems'' * Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, ''Court Eclogues'' * ''Poems on Affairs of State, from the time of Oliver Cromwell to the abdication of K. James Second'', written by the Greatest Wits of the Age, 6th edn, including first publication of "The Duel of the Crabs" by Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset (died 1706) * Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1715 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * Nicholas Rowe (writer), Nicholas Rowe made British Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Poet Laureate in succession to Nahum Tate. * Mary Monck, dying in Bath, Somerset, Bath, England, writes affecting verses to her husband, not published until 1755 in poetry, 1755. Works published English poetry, United Kingdom * Susanna Centlivre, ''A Poem. Humbly Presented to His most Sacred Majesty George, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland. Upon His Ascension to the Throne'' * Charles Cotton, ''The Genuine Works of Charles Cotton'', posthumously published * Samuel Croxall, ''The Vision'' * Daniel Defoe, published anonymously, attributed to Defoe, ''A Hymn to the Mob'' * Alexander Pope: * ''The Temple of Fame'' * Translator, ''The Iliad of Homer'', Volume I (Books 1–4), followed by Volume II (Biooks 5–8) in 1716 in p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iliad
The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odyssey'', the poem is divided into 24 books and contains 15,693 lines in its most widely accepted version, and was written in dactylic hexameter. Set towards the end of the Trojan War, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek states, the poem depicts significant events in the siege's final weeks. In particular, it depicts a fierce quarrel between King Agamemnon and a celebrated warrior, Achilles. It is a central part of the Epic Cycle. The ''Iliad'' is often regarded as the first substantial piece of European literature. The ''Iliad'', and the ''Odyssey'', were likely written down in Homeric Greek, a literary amalgam of Ionic Greek and other dialects, probably around the late 8th or early 7th century BC. Homer's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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