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Irish or
France
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).
Events
Works published
Great Britain
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Francis Quarles, ''Solomon's Recantation, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased''
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
* Sir
Robert Stapylton, translator, ''Erotopagnion'', translated from the original
Latin
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of the ''Musaeus''
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* ]Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller, 3 March 1606 to 21 October 1687, was a poet and politician from Buckinghamshire. He sat as MP for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and was one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons. Althoug ...
, ''Poems''[
* ]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 ...
, ''Vox Pacifica: A Voice Tending to the Pacification of God's Wrath''[
]
Other
* Adrián de Alesio, ''El Angélico'' ("The Angel"), dedicated to Saint Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas ( ; ; – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican Order, Dominican friar and Catholic priest, priest, the foremost Scholasticism, Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the W ...
* Sheikh Muhammad, ''Yoga-samgrama''
Works incorrectly dated this year
* 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 ...
, '' Poems of Mr John Milton, Both English and Latin'', published 1646, according to ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', notwithstanding the book's title page[
]
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in poetry" article:
* April 11 – Juan del Valle y Caviedes (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 ...
), Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
-born Peruvian
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poet and author
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "ear
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in poetry" article:
* March 10 – William Strode (born c.1602
Events January–March
* 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 Dece ...
), English poet
* April 3 ''(bur.)'' – Emilia Lanier
Emilia Lanier (; 1569–1645) was the first woman in England to assert herself as a professional poet, through her volume '' Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum'' (''Hail, God, King of the Jews'', 1611). Attempts have been made to equate her with Shakesp ...
, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer" (born 1569), English
* July 7 – Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (born 1569), German
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**Germania (Roman era)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizenship in Germany, see also Ge ...
officer and poet
* July 13 – Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (born c. 1566
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Year 1566 (Roman numerals, MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Cardinal Michele Ghislieri is 1565–1566 papal conclave, elected as the new Pope ...
), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ; ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the the essay ...
; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
* August 28 – Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius ( ; 10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645), also known as Hugo de Groot () or Huig de Groot (), was a Dutch humanist, diplomat, lawyer, theologian, jurist, statesman, poet and playwright. A teenage prodigy, he was born in Delft an ...
(born 1583), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright and poet
* August 31 – Francesco Bracciolini (born 1566
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Year 1566 (Roman numerals, MDLXVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
* January 7 – Cardinal Michele Ghislieri is 1565–1566 papal conclave, elected as the new Pope ...
), Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, a Romance ethnic group related to or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance languag ...
* September 8 – Francisco de Quevedo
Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Order of Santiago, Knight of the Order of Santiago (; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, ...
(born 1580
1580 (Roman numerals, MDLXXX) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Events
January–March
* January 31 – Portuguese succession crisis of 1580: The death of Henry, King of Portugal, with no direct heirs, leads ...
), Spanish
Spanish might refer to:
* Items from or related to Spain:
**Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain
**Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many countries in the Americas
**Spanish cuisine
**Spanish history
**Spanish culture
...
nobleman, politician and Golden Age
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poet
* William Browne (born 1590), English pastoral poet
* Feng Menglong
Feng Menglong (1574–1646), courtesy names Youlong (), Gongyu (), Ziyou (), or Eryou (), was a Chinese historian, novelist, and poet of the late Ming Dynasty. He was born in Changzhou County, now part of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province.
Life
Feng wa ...
(born 1574), Chinese writer and poet
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 ...
* 17th century in poetry
Works published
Danish poetry, 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 ...
* 17th century in literature
* Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War
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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 ...
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