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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- Christopher MarloweChristopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...
wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is a poem written by the English poet Christopher Marlowe and published in 1599 . In addition to being one of the most well-known love poems in the English language, it is considered one of the earliest examples of the pastoral style of British poetry in the...
either this year or in 15881588 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1589 -Great Britain:...
(first published 15991599 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samuel Daniel became poet laureate in England this year -Works published:...
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Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- William ByrdWilliam ByrdWilliam Byrd was an English composer of the Renaissance. He wrote in many of the forms current in England at the time, including various types of sacred and secular polyphony, keyboard and consort music.-Provenance:Knowledge of Byrd's biography expanded in the late 20th century, thanks largely...
, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, verse and music - Thomas DeloneyThomas DeloneyThomas Deloney was an English novelist and balladist.He appears to have worked as a silk-weaver in Norwich, but was in London by 1586, and in the course of the next ten years is known to have written about fifty ballads, some of which got him into trouble, and caused him to keep a low profile for...
, A New Ballet of the Straunge and Most Cruell Whippes which the Spanyards Had Prepared to Whippe and Torment English Men and Women, a ballad - Anthony MundayAnthony MundayAnthony Munday was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood.-Biography:He was once thought to have been born in 1553, because...
, A Banquet of Daintie Conceits - George PuttenhamGeorge PuttenhamGeorge Puttenham was a sixteenth-century English writer, literary critic, and notorious rake. He is generally considered to be the author of the enormously influential handbook on poetry and rhetoric, The Arte of English Poesie ....
, authorship uncertain, Arte of English Poesie, the first draft is thought to have been written in the 1560s, with revisions thereafter, up to its publication; the most systematic and comprehensive treatise of the time on poetry; "contrived into three bookes: the first of poets and poesies [a general history of poetry and descriptions of various forms], the second of proportion [on prosody and the measures in use in English verse], the third of ornament [on style, the distinctions between written and spoken language and other matters]" the work concludes with lengthy observations on good manners - Sir Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesie, criticism
- Nicholas YongeNicholas YongeNicholas Yonge was an English singer and publisher. He is most famous for publishing the Musica transalpina , a collection of Italian madrigals with their words translated into English...
, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music (see also Musica Transalpina 15971597 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Breton:...
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Other
- Flor de Varios Romances Nuevos, a famous SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
poetry anthology; includes 12 romances by Luis de Góngora y Argote - Alonso de ErcillaAlonso de ErcillaAlonso de Ercilla y Zúñiga was a Spanish nobleman, soldier and epic poet from the Basque Country. While in Chile he fought against the Araucanians, and there he began the epic poem La Araucana, considered the greatest Spanish historical poem. This heroic work in 37 cantos is divided into three...
, La AraucanaLa AraucanaLa Araucana is an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad...
, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 15691569 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Stephen Bateman, The Travayled Pylgrime, translated from Olivier de la Marche's Le chevalier delibere...
, the second part was published for the first time om 15781578 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Blenerhasset, The Seconde Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates * Thomas Proctor, editor, A Gorgious Gallery, of Gallant Inventions, including contributions by Proctor,...
(together with the first part), the third part was published for the first time this year (together with the first and second parts); SpainSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature....
Births
- January 9 – Ivan GundulićIvan GundulicIvan Franov Gundulić is the most celebrated Croatian Baroque poet from the Republic of Ragusa. His work embodies central characteristics of Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation: religious fervor, insistence on "vanity of this world" and zeal in opposition to "infidels." Gundulić's major...
(died 16381638 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Henry Adamson, Muses Threnodie: of Mirthful Mournings on the death of Mr Gall, Edinburgh, noted for giving a general description of Perth in the 17th century; published with the encouragement...
), Croatian - February 5 – Esteban Manuel de VillegasEsteban Manuel de VillegasEsteban Manuel de Villegas was a 17th century Spanish poet.- Biography :...
(died 16691669 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir John Denham, Cato Major of Old Age, a verse paraphrase of Cicero's De senectute...
), SpanishSpanish poetrySpanish poetry is the poetic tradition of Spain. It may include elements of Spanish literature, and literatures written in languages of Spain other than Castilian, such as Catalan literature.... - Also:
- Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de RacanHonorat de Bueil, seigneur de RacanHonorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan was a French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and member of the Académie française....
(died 16701670 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Other:* Sir Richard Fanshawe, translated, Querer por solo querer: To love ony for love sake, translated from Antonio Hurtado de Mendoza...
), French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie françaiseAcadémie françaiseL'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,... - Konstantinos KallokratosKonstantinos KallokratosKonstantinos Kallokratos was a teacher and a poet.He was born in Veroia in 1589. He was a student at the Greek College of Ayios Athanasios in Rome between 1600 and 1610. There, he studied philosophy and theology. Later he taught at a school in Calabria for Greek-speaking Albanians. His bosom...
(died unknown) Greek teacher and a poet - Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville (born about this year (died 16551655 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Cotgrave, The English Treasury of Wit and Language: collected out of the most, and best of our English drammatick poems; methodically digested into common places for generall use...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
engineer, geographer, poet, playwright and author - Jean SirmondJean SirmondJean Sirmond was a neo-Latin poet and French man of letters, historiographer of Louis XIII.-His life and writing:...
(died 16491649 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Richard Brome, perhaps the editor, Lachrymae Musarum: The Tears of the Muses, anonymous collection of elegies on the death of Henry, Lord Hastings; assumed to have been assembled by Brome*...
), French neo-Latin poet and man of letters
- Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan
Deaths
- September 19 – Jean-Antoine de BaïfJean-Antoine de BaïfJean Antoine de Baïf was a French poet and member of the Pléiade.-Life:He was born in Venice, the natural son of the scholar Lazare de Baïf, who was at that time French ambassador at Venice...
(born 15321532 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be sometime from 1530 to this year; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval,...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
poet and member of La PléiadeLa PléiadeThe Pléiade is the name given to a group of 16th-century French Renaissance poets whose principal members were Pierre de Ronsard, Joachim du Bellay and Jean-Antoine de Baïf. The name was a reference to another literary group, the original Alexandrian Pleiad of seven Alexandrian poets and... - Mathias Holtzwart died sometime after this year (born about 15401540 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain* Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M...
), German - Pavel Kyrmezer (birth year not known), Slovak
- Thomas SébilletThomas SébilletThomas Sébillet was a French jurist and grammarian. He is now remembered for his Art Poétique from 1548, on French verse. He was strongly contradicted later by Joachim du Bellay, whose art poétique became normative. This "decapitation of richesse" lead to a centralisation of language, too...
(born 15121512 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, publication year uncertain; written before 1325; in couplets; Great Britain...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:... - Heo NanseolheonHeo Nanseolheon- Additional Resources :Choe-Wall, Yang-hi. Vision of a Phoenix: the Poems of Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn.Kim, Jaihiun Joyce. Classical Korean Poetry.Kim-Renaud, Young-Key. Creative Women of Korea: the Fifteenth through the Twentieth Centuries....
(born 15631563 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other ballads...
), KoreanKorean poetryKorean poetry is poetry performed or written in the Korean language or by Korean people. Traditional Korean poetry is often sung in performance. Until the 20th century, much of Korean poetry was written in Hanja and later Hangul.- History :...
scholar and poet who also wrote in ChineseChinese poetryChinese poetry is poetry written, spoken, or chanted in the Chinese language, which includes various versions of Chinese language, including Classical Chinese, Standard Chinese, Mandarin Chinese, Cantonese, Yue Chinese, as well as many other historical and vernacular varieties of the Chinese language...
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See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 16th century in poetry16th 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 .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
- 16th century in literature16th century in literatureSee also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature is the literature written in the Dutch language in the Low Countries from around 1550 to around 1700...
- Elizabethan literatureElizabethan literatureThe term Elizabethan literature refers to the English literature produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I .The Elizabethan era saw a great flourishing of literature, especially in the field of drama...
- English Madrigal SchoolEnglish Madrigal SchoolThe English Madrigal School was the brief but intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in style, and generally began as either copies or direct translations...
- French Renaissance literatureFrench Renaissance literatureFor more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
- Renaissance literatureRenaissance literatureRenaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
- Spanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...
- University WitsUniversity WitsThe University Wits were a group of late 16th century English playwrights who were educated at the universities and who became playwrights and popular secular writers...