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France
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John Milton
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant. His 1667 epic poem ''Paradise Lost'' was written in blank verse and included 12 books, written in a time of immense religious flux and politic ...
enters
Christ's College, Cambridge
Christ's College is a Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the Master, the Fellows of the College, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students. The c ...
.
Works published
Great Britain
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Thomas Heywood
Thomas Heywood (early 1570s – 16 August 1641) was an English playwright, actor, and author. His main contributions were to late Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. He is best known for his masterpiece ''A Woman Killed with Kindness'', a ...
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** Translator, ''Art of Love'', publication year uncertain; published anonymously; translated from
Ovid
Publius Ovidius Naso (; 20 March 43 BC – AD 17/18), known in English as Ovid ( ), was a Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Roman poet who lived during the reign of Augustus. He was a younger contemporary of Virgil and Horace, with whom he i ...
, ''
Ars amatoria
The (''The Art of Love'') is an instructional elegy series in three books by the ancient Roman poet Ovid. It was written in 2 AD.
Content
Book one of was written to show a man how to find a woman. In book two, Ovid shows how to keep her. These ...
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[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
* ''A Funeral Elegie: Upon the much lamented death of''
..''King James''
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* ]Francis Quarles
Francis Quarles (about 8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most notable for his emblem book entitled ''Emblems''.
Early life
Francis Quarles was born in Romford, Essex, and baptised there on 8 May 1592. His family had a long his ...
, ''Sions Sonnets'' (see also ''Sions Elegies'' 1624
Events
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* January 14 – After 90 years of Ottoman occupation, Baghdad is recaptured by the Safavid Empire.
* January 22 – Korean General Yi Gwal leads an uprising of 12,000 soldiers against King Injo i ...
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* Honorat de Bueil de Racan
Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan (sometimes mistakenly listed as "marquis de Racan", although he never held this title) (5 February 1589 – 21 January 1670) was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and a founding member of the Ac ...
, ''Les Bergeries'', France
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* Honoré d'Urfé
Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf (11 February 15681 June 1625) was a French novelist and miscellaneous writer.
Life
He was born at Marseille, the grandson of Claude d'Urfé, and was educated at the Collège de T ...
, ''Sylvanire'', France
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Births
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in poetry" article:
* Miguel de Barrios (died 1701
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* march 8th – Parts of the Netherlands adopt the Gregorian calenda ...
), Spanish poet and historian
* Dáibhí Ó Bruadair
Dáibhí Ó Bruadair (1625 – January 1698) was a 17th-century Irish language Irish poetry, poet who was probably received his training in a Bard, Bardic school . He lived through a period of change in Irish history, and his work reflects the de ...
(died 1698
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England.
* January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, England is destroyed by fire.
* January 23 – ...
), Irish language poet
* John Caryll (died 1711
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Sunday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January – Cary's Rebellion: The Lords Proprietor appoint Edward ...
), English poet, dramatist and diplomat
* Samuel Chappuzeau (died 1701
In the Swedish calendar it was a common year starting on Tuesday, one day ahead of the Julian and ten days behind the Gregorian calendar.
Events
January–June
* march 8th – Parts of the Netherlands adopt the Gregorian calenda ...
), French scholar, author, poet and playwright
* Marusia Churai
Maria or Marusia Churai (; 1625–1653) was a mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet, and singer. She became a recurrent motif in Ukrainian literature and the songs ascribed to her are widely performed in Ukraine.
According to the legend sh ...
(died 1689
Events
Notable events during this year include:
* Coup, war, and legislation in England and its territories.
** The overthrow of Catholic king James of England, Ireland, and Scotland in the Glorious Revolution.
** The latter realms ente ...
), semi-mythical Ukrainian Baroque composer, poet and singer
* Jacques de Coras
Jacques de Coras (1625 – 24 December 1677) was a French poet born in Toulouse. Grandson of the Huguenot jurist Jean de Coras, he was raised in the Protestant Reformed Church of France. After serving as a cadet in the military, he studied theology ...
(died 1677
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Jean Racine's tragedy '' Phèdre'' is first performed, in Paris.
* January 21 – The first medical publication in America (a pamphlet on smallpox) is produced in Boston.
* February 15 ...
), French
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** French people, a nation and ethnic group
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poet and minister
* Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto
Moses ben Mordecai Zacuto ( 1625 – 1 October 1697), also known by the Hebrew acronym ''RaMa"Z'', was a rabbi, Kabbalist, and poet. Zacuto, who was born into a Portuguese Marrano family in Amsterdam, studied Jewish subjects under Saul Levi Mort ...
(died 1697
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Thomas Aikenhead is hanged outside Edinburgh, becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy.
* January 11 – French writer Charles Perrault releases the book '' Histoires ...
), kabalistic
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writer and poet
* Katarina Zrinska (died 1673
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Impersonator Mary Carleton is hanging, hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
* February 10 – Molière's ''comédie-ballet ...
), Croatian noblewoman and poet
Deaths
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* March 26 – Giambattista Marino
Giambattista Marino (also Giovan Battista Marini) (14 October 1569 – 26 March 1625) was a Neapolitan poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic '.
The ''Cambridge History of Italian Literature'' thought him to be "one of ...
(born 1569
Year 1569 ( MDLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events January–March
* January 11 — The first recorded lottery in England begins and continues, nonstop, at the west door of St Paul's Cathedral for al ...
), Italian
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poet famous for his long epic ''L'Adone''
* August 29 ''(bur.)'' – John Fletcher (born 1579
Year 1579 ( MDLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Monday of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar.
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January–March
* January 6 – The Union of Arras unites the s ...
), English
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Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
dramatist and poet
* September – Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (September 1625) was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Biography
Early life
Thomas Lodge was born about 1557 in West Ham, the second son of Sir Thomas Lodge ...
(born 1558
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Year 1558 ( MDLVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
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* January 7 – French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, take Calais, the last continental possession o ...
), English
English usually refers to:
* English language
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English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
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dramatist, writer and physician
* September 20 – Heinrich Meibom (born 1555
Year 1555 ( MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 22 – The Kingdom of Ava in Upper Burma falls.
* February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins.
* February 4 &nda ...
), German
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historian and poet
* October 10 – Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625) was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset.
Origins
He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d.1584) of Charlton, in the parish of Wraxall, Somerset, Wraxall in Somerset, ...
(born 1569
Year 1569 ( MDLXIX) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.
Events January–March
* January 11 — The first recorded lottery in England begins and continues, nonstop, at the west door of St Paul's Cathedral for al ...
), English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Culture, language and peoples
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
* ''English'', an Amish ter ...
poet, translator, courtier and naval captain
* Israel ben Moses Najara
Israel ben Moses Najara (; ; – ) was a prolific Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist (although this is disputed), and rabbi in Gaza.
Biography
The rabbinic Najara family was originally from Nájera, a Spani ...
1555
Year 1555 ( MDLV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 22 – The Kingdom of Ava in Upper Burma falls.
* February 2 – The Diet of Augsburg begins.
* February 4 &nda ...
), Hebrew
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poet in Palestine (Ottoman Empire)
* Adrianus Valerius
Adrianus Valerius, also known as Adriaen Valerius, (c. 1575 – 1625) was a Dutch poet and composer, known mostly for his poems dealing with peasant and burgher life and those dealing with the Dutch War of Independence, assembled in his great ...
(born 1570
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1570 ( MDLXX) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 8 – Ivan the Terrible begins the Massacre of Novgorod.
* January 23 – The assassination of Scottish r ...
), Dutch
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See also
* Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...
* 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� ...
* 16th century in literature
This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century.
Events
1501
*Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius at the Aldine Press in Venice, in an octavo edition of Virgil's ''Aeneid' ...
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{{Lists of poets
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Poetry
Poetry (from the Greek language, Greek word ''poiesis'', "making") is a form of literature, literary art that uses aesthetics, aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meaning (linguistics), meanings in addition to, or in ...