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Anne Bradstreet Anne Bradstreet (née Dudley; March 8, 1612 – September 16, 1672) was the most prominent of early English poets of North America and first writer in England's North American colonies to be published. She is the first Puritan figure in Am ...
becomes a founding mother of Andover Parish (modern-day
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), Massachusetts. *
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clergyman, poet and dramatist
Jasper Mayne Jasper Mayne (1604 – 6 December 1672) was an English clergyman, translator, and a minor poet and dramatist. Mayne was baptized at Hatherleigh, Devon, on 23 November 1604, and educated at Westminster School and Christ Church, Oxford. He then e ...
is made a
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Guillaume Colletet Guillaume Colletet (12 March 1598 – 11 February 1659) was a French poet and a founder member of the Académie française. His son was François Colletet. Biography Colletet was born and died in Paris. He had a great reputation among his conte ...
, ''Le Banquet des Poètes'' *
Richard Crashaw Richard Crashaw (c. 1613 – 21 August 1649) was an English poet, teacher, High Church Anglican cleric and Roman Catholic convert, who was one of the major metaphysical poets in 17th-century English literature. Crashaw was the son of a famous A ...
, ''Steps to the Temple: Sacred poems, with other delights of the muses'' (expanded edition
1648 1648 has been suggested as possibly the last year in which the overall human population declined, coming towards the end of a broader period of global instability which included the collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Thirty Years' War, t ...
)Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, *
Jean Ogier de Gombauld Jean Ogier de Gombauld (1576 – 1666) was a French playwright and poet. Gombauld was born in Saint-Just-Luzac, Charente-Maritime and was a Huguenot. He was one of the original members of the Académie française. He also wrote novels, but has ...
, ''Poésies'' * Martin Lluelyn, ''Men-Miracles: With other poemes'' *
John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...
, ''Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin'' (see below) *
James Shirley James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an English dramatist. He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Charles Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so m ...
, ''Poems'' * Sir John Suckling, ''Fragmenta Aurea'', works, including letters, poems and plays *
Henry Vaughan Henry Vaughan (17 April 1621 – 23 April 1695) was a Welsh metaphysical poet, author and translator writing in English, and a medical physician. His religious poetry appeared in ''Silex Scintillans'' in 1650, with a second part in 1655.''Oxfor ...
, ''Poems, with the Tenth Satyre of Juvenal Englished'' *
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 En ...
, ''Opobalsamum Anglicanum''


Milton's ''Poems''

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John Milton John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem '' Paradise Lost'', written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political ...
, '' Poems of Mr. John Milton both English and Latin, compos'd at several times''; published this year, although the book states 1645; the volume's frontispiece contains an extremely unflattering portrait of Milton by the engraver William Marshall, under which Milton placed satirical verses in Greek denying any resemblance (see revised edition,
1673 Events January–March * January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation. * February 10 – Molière's ''comédie-ballet'' ''The Imagi ...
); the volume includes these poems: ***''
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his ''Poems of Mr. John Milton'' (1645). The poem describes Christ's Incarnation and his overthrow of earthly and pagan powers. The poem ...
'' ***A Paraphrase on Psalm 114 ***Psalm 136 ***'' The Passion'' an ode possibly written in 1630; it connects
Christ's Crucifixion The crucifixion and death of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33. It is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to by other ancient sources, and considere ...
with his
Incarnation Incarnation literally means ''embodied in flesh'' or ''taking on flesh''. It refers to the conception and the embodiment of a deity or spirit in some earthly form or the appearance of a god as a human. If capitalized, it is the union of divinit ...
; linked to two other poems of Milton: ''
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity ''On the Morning of Christ's Nativity'' is a nativity ode written by John Milton in 1629 and published in his ''Poems of Mr. John Milton'' (1645). The poem describes Christ's Incarnation and his overthrow of earthly and pagan powers. The poem ...
'' and ''
Upon the Circumcision ''Upon the Circumcision'' is an ode by John Milton that was possibly written in 1633 and first published in 1645. It discusses the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ and connects Christ's Incarnation with his Crucifixion. Background The exact d ...
'' ***''On Time'' ***''
Upon the Circumcision ''Upon the Circumcision'' is an ode by John Milton that was possibly written in 1633 and first published in 1645. It discusses the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ and connects Christ's Incarnation with his Crucifixion. Background The exact d ...
'' ***''At A Solemn Musick'' ***''An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester'' ***''Song on May Morning'' ***''On Shakespeare'' ***''On the University Carrier'' 'Hobson's Epitaph''***''Another on the Same'' ***''
L'Allegro ''L'Allegro'' is a pastoral poem by John Milton published in his 1645 ''Poems''. ''L'Allegro'' (which means "the happy man" in Italian) has from its first appearance been paired with the contrasting pastoral poem, ''Il Penseroso'' ("the melan ...
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Il Penseroso ''Il Penseroso'' ("the thinker") is a poem by John Milton, first found in the 1645/1646 quarto of verses ''The Poems of Mr. John Milton, both English and Latin'', published by Humphrey Moseley. It was presented as a companion piece to ''L'Alle ...
'' ***Sonnets 1-10 ***'' Arcades'' ***''
Lycidas "Lycidas" () is a poem by John Milton, written in 1637 as a pastoral elegy. It first appeared in a 1638 collection of elegies, ''Justa Edouardo King Naufrago'', dedicated to the memory of Edward King, a friend of Milton at Cambridge who drown ...
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in poetry" article: * February 4 – Hans Erasmus Aßmann (died 1699 in poetry, 1699), Germans, German statesman and poet * March 19 – Michael Kongehl (died
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Pan Lei Pan Lei () (1646 – 1708) was a Qing dynasty scholar. He wrote the prefaces for a number of works that appeared in his time. In the preface to writer Qu Dajun's book ''Guangdong Xinyu'', widely regarded as a valuable source on the econo ...
(died
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),
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scholar and poet *
Benedetto Menzini Benedetto Menzini (b. at Florence, 1646; d. at Rome, 7 September 1704) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and poet. In his satires he assails in acrid terms the hypocrisy prevailing in Tuscany in the last years of the Medici rule. Life His fam ...
(died
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),
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Roman Catholic priest and poet


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ear An ear is the organ that enables hearing and, in mammals, body balance using the vestibular system. In mammals, the ear is usually described as having three parts—the outer ear, the middle ear and the inner ear. The outer ear consists of ...
in poetry" article: * December 28 – François Maynard (born
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poet


See also

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Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
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17th century in poetry Works published Denmark * Thomas Kingo, ''Aandelige Siunge-Koor'' ("Spiritual Choirs"), hymns, some of which are still sungPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF ...
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17th century in literature Events and trends * 1605–1615 – Miguel de Cervantes writes the two parts of ''Don Quixote''. * 1616: April – Death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. * 1630-1651: William Bradford writes ''Of Plymouth Plantation'', journ ...
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Cavalier poets The cavalier poets was a school of English poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Charles, a connoisseur of the fine arts, supported poets who created the art ...
in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War


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{{Lists of poets 17th-century poetry
Poetry Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...