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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...

 or France
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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Great Britain
English poetry
The 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...

  • Philip Ayres
    Philip Ayres (poet)
    Philip Ayres , the author of numerous books and pamphlets, flourished in the latter part of the seventeenth century; was born at Cottingham, and educated at Westminster, and St. John's College, Oxford. He became tutor in the family of Montagu Garrard Drake, of Agmondesham, Bucks, and lived in the...

    , Emblems of Love, later reissued under the title Cupids Addresse to the Ladies
  • John Chalkhill
    John Chalkhill
    John Chalkhill was an English poet.Two songs by him are included in Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, and in 1683 appeared Thealma and Clearchus. A Pastoral History in smooth and easie Verse...

    , Thealma and Clearchus: A pastoral history, posthumously published; edited by Izaak Walton
    Izaak Walton
    Izaak Walton was an English writer. Best known as the author of The Compleat Angler, he also wrote a number of short biographies which have been collected under the title of Walton's Lives.-Biography:...

  • Thomas D'Urfey
    Thomas d'Urfey
    Thomas D'Urfey was an English writer and wit. He composed plays, songs, and poetry, in addition to writing jokes. He was an important innovator and contributor in the evolution of the Ballad opera....

    , A New Collection of Songs and Poems
  • Thomas Flatman
    Thomas Flatman
    Thomas Flatman was an English poet and miniature painter. There were several editions of his Poems and Songs . One of his self-portraits is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. A portrait of Charles II is in the Wallace Collection, London...

    , On the Death of the Illustrious Prince Rupert, Prince Rupert died November 29 of this year
  • Robert Gould
    Robert Gould
    Robert Gould was a significant voice in Restoration poetry in England.He was born in the lower classes and orphaned when he was thirteen. It is possible that he had a sister, but her name and fate are unknown. Gould entered into domestic service...

    , Presbytery Rough-Drawn, published anonymously
  • John Mason
    John Mason (poet)
    John Mason was an English clergyman, poet and influential hymn-writer, a Calvinist and millennial preacher.-Life:He belonged to a clerical family living in the neighbourhood of Kettering and Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. He was educated first at Strixton in Northamptonshire, and was admitted a...

    , Spiritual Songs; or, Songs of Praise to Almighty God upon Several Occasions, published anonymously
  • John Oldham
    John Oldham (poet)
    John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator.-Life and work:Oldham was born in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, the son of John Oldham, a non-conformist minister, and grandson of John Oldham the staunch anti-papist rector of Shipton Moyne and before that of Long Newton in Wiltshire...

    , Poems, and Translations
  • Thomas Shipman, Carolina; or, Loyal Poems

Other

  • Benjamin Keach
    Benjamin Keach
    Benjamin Keach was a Particular Baptist preacher in London whose name was given to Keach's Catechism.-Biography:...

    , Sion in Distress, or The Groans of the Protestant Church, English Colonial America
  • Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
    Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
    Emilie Juliane was a German countess and hymn writer.Emilie Juliane was a daughter of Count Albrecht Friedrich I of Barby-Mühlingen and his wife Sophia Ursula of Oldenburg-Delmenhorst...

    , Geistliche Lieder [...], German hymns; published in Rudolstadt
    Rudolstadt
    Rudolstadt is a town in the German Bundesland of Thuringia, close to the Thuringian Forest to the southwest, and to Jena and Weimar to the north....


Births

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  • Elijah Fenton
    Elijah Fenton
    -Life:Born in Shelton , and educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, for a time he acted as secretary to the Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery in Flanders, and was then Master of Sevenoaks Grammar School.In 1707, Fenton published a book of poems...

     (died 1730
    1730 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English, Colonial America:* Ebenezer Cooke , Sotweed Redivivus, or, The Planters Looking-Glass by E. C...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The 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...

     poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • Katherine Austen
    Katherine Austen
    Katherine Austen was a British diarist and poet best known for Book M, her manuscript collection of meditations, journal entries, and verse.-Early life:...

     (born 1629
    1629 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth-field: With a taste of the variety of other poems left by Sir John Beaumont, posthumously published by his son and namesake* George Chapman, translator, A...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The 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...

     diarist and poet
  • John Oldham
    John Oldham (poet)
    John Oldham was an English satirical poet and translator.-Life and work:Oldham was born in Shipton Moyne, Gloucestershire, the son of John Oldham, a non-conformist minister, and grandson of John Oldham the staunch anti-papist rector of Shipton Moyne and before that of Long Newton in Wiltshire...

     (born 1653
    1653 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Margaret Cavendish, Lady Newcastle, Poems, and Fancies, prose and poetry* An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The 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...

     poet

See also

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry 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...

  • 17th century in poetry
    17th century in poetry
    -Denmark:* Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor , hymns, some of which are still sung-Other:* Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen Poeterey , Germany-Danish poets:* Anders Arrebo...

  • 17th century in literature
    17th century in literature
    See also: 17th century in poetry, 16th century in literature*Early Modern literature*other events of the 17th century*18th century in literature, 1700 in literature,and list of years in literature.-Events and trends:...

  • Restoration literature
    Restoration literature
    Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration , which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland...

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