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France
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English
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poet
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 politica ...
loses the last of his eyesight during the year; his first wife Mary (née Powell, 1625) dies on May 5.
* A translation by Saiyid Aidarus of the
Arabic
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religious poem "Hamziya" is the earliest known written example of
Swahili literature
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Works published
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Edward Benlowes
Edward Benlowes (12 July 160318 December 1676) was an English poet.
Life
The son of Andrew Benlowes of Brent Hall, Essex, he matriculated at St Johns College, Cambridge, on 8 April 1620.
On leaving the university he travelled with a tutor on ...
, ''Theophila; or, Loves Sacrifice'', including some
Latin poetry
The history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus, the earliest surviving examples of Latin literature, are estimated to have been composed around 205-184 BC.
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and translations
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
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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 ...
, ''Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnus: Sacred poems'', containing poems from ''Steps to the Temple''
1646, and new poetry
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* Sir Richard Fanshawe, ''Selected Parts of Horace, Prince of Lyricks'', published anonymously; Latin and English verse on facing pages][
* John Hall, translator, ''Of the Height of Eloquence'' by Longinus (a work now known in English as ''On the Sublime'')][Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce]
''Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830)''
p 375, Franklin, Burt, 1971, , retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
* John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on 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 politica ...
entitled ''Pro Rege et populo anglicano''
Works incorrectly dated this year
* Anonymous, ''A Hermeticall Banquet'', published in 1651, according to ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', although the book states "1652"; some attribute the book to James Howell
James Howell (c. 1594 – 1666) was a 17th-century Anglo-Welsh historian and writer who is in many ways a representative figure of his age. The son of a Welsh clergyman, he was for much of his life in the shadow of his elder brother Thomas Ho ...
, others to Thomas Vaughan[
]
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* May - Jane Barker
Jane Barker (1652–1732) was a popular English fiction writer, poet, and a staunch Jacobite. She went into self-imposed exile when James II fled England during the Glorious Revolution in 1688. Her novels, ''The Amours of Bosvil and Galesia' ...
(died 1732), English
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poet and playwright
* Hanabusa Itchō (died 1724), Japanese painter, calligrapher, and haiku
is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a '' kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a '' kigo'', or ...
poet
* Nahum Tate
Nahum Tate ( ; 1652 – 30 July 1715) was an Irish poet, hymnist and lyricist, who became Poet Laureate in 1692. Tate is best known for ''The History of King Lear'', his 1681 adaptation of Shakespeare's ''King Lear'', and for his libretto for ...
(died 1715), Irish poet
* Probable date - Vemana (died 1730), Telugu
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...
poet
Deaths
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* April 12 - John Vicars (born 1582), English
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contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
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* May - Claude de L'Estoile
Claude de L'Estoile (1602, Paris – May 1652) was a French playwright and poet. He was a founder member of the Académie française.
Biography
Third son of Pierre de L'Estoile he inherited fortune, he devoted himself entirely to poetry and bell ...
(born 1602
Events January–June
* January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 De ...
), French
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playwright and poet
* June 25 - Abraham von Franckenberg
Abraham von Franckenberg (24 June 1593 – 25 June 1652) was a German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer.
Life
Abraham von Franckenberg was born in 1593 into an old Silesian noble family in Ludwigsdorf bei Oels. He attended the Gymnasium in ...
(born 1593), German mystic
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, author, poet and hymn-writer
* October 20 - Antonio Coello
Antonio Coello (26 October 1611, Madrid20 October 1652, Madrid) was a Spanish dramatist and poet. He entered the household of the Duke of Alburquerque, and after some years of service in the army received the Order of Santiago in 1648. He was a fav ...
(born 1611
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* February 27 – Sunspots are observed by telescope, by Frisian astronomers Johannes Fabricius and David Fabricius. Johannes publishes the results of these observations, in ''De Maculis in Sole observat ...
), Spanish
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dramatist and poet
* November 21 - Jan Brożek
Jan Brożek (''Ioannes Broscius'', ''Joannes Broscius'' or ''Johannes Broscius''; 1 November 1585 – 21 November 1652) was a Polish polymath: a mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector of the Kraków Academy.
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(born 1585
Events
January–June
* January – The Netherlands adopts the Gregorian calendar.
* February – The Spanish seize Brussels.
* April 24 – Pope Sixtus V succeeds Pope Gregory XIII, as the 227th pope.
* May 19 – S ...
), Polish
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mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector
* Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha
Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha) (1570–1652) was an Irish
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(born 1570
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* January 8 – Ivan the Terrible begins the Massacre of Novgorod.
* Janua ...
), Irish Gaelic poet and historian, killed
* Wang Duo
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(born 1592
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* January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope. He immediately recalls the Sixtine Vulgate.
* February 7 – G ...
), Chinese
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calligrapher, painter and poet
* Approximate date - Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig
Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (c. 1580 – 1653) was an Irish poet and priest. He is not to be confused with any of the Barons of Upper Ossory, his relations, several of whom bore the same name in Irish.
Background
Mac Giolla Phádraig was a scion ...
(born 1580), Irish Gaelic scholar and poet, killed
See also
* 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 ...
* 17th century in poetry
Works published
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* 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 ...
* 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'', j ...
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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 ...