16th century in poetry
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- Hamzah FansuriHamzah FansuriHamzah Fansuri was a famous Sumatran Sufi writer, the first known to pen mystical panentheistic ideas in the Malay language. He wrote both prose and poetry, and worked at the court of the Aceh Sultanate....
writes in the Malay languageMalay languageMalay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
. - The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva EspañaRomances de los señores de Nueva EspañaThe Romances de los señores de Nueva España is a 16th century compilation of Nahuatl songs or poems preserved in the Library of the University of Texas...
, a collection of AztecAztecThe Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology.Aztec is the...
poetry (including pre-ColumbianPre-ColumbianThe pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continents, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during...
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England
- John SkeltonJohn SkeltonJohn Skelton, also known as John Shelton , possibly born in Diss, Norfolk, was an English poet.-Education:...
(c. 1460–15291529 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Solomon and Marcolphus, publication year uncertain, England...
) - Sir Walter Ralegh (15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
–16181618 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days...
) - Edmund SpenserEdmund SpenserEdmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English...
(15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
–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:...
) - Sir Philip Sidney (15541554 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Pierre de Ronsard:** Bocage** Meslanges...
–15861586 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard, The Epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney * Thomas Deloney:** The Lamentation of Beckles, a ballad** A Most Joyfull Songe, a ballad* William Warner,...
) - 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...
(15641564 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Ivančice hymn-book, a revised edition of the Polish-language Šamotulský kancionál 1561; a Czech poet* Helius Eobanus Hessus, Idyls, German writing in...
–15931593 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the...
) - William ShakespeareWilliam ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
(15641564 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Ivančice hymn-book, a revised edition of the Polish-language Šamotulský kancionál 1561; a Czech poet* Helius Eobanus Hessus, Idyls, German writing in...
–16161616 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals. The Second Booke...
) - John DonneJohn DonneJohn Donne 31 March 1631), English poet, satirist, lawyer, and priest, is now considered the preeminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are notable for their strong and sensual style and include sonnets, love poetry, religious poems, Latin translations, epigrams, elegies, songs,...
(c. 15721572 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.-Works published:-France:* Olivier de...
–16311631 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Georges de Scudéry Œuvres poétiques ,* Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac:** Aristippe ou De la cour...
) - Ben JonsonBen JonsonBenjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
(c. 15721572 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.-Works published:-France:* Olivier de...
–16371637 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson -Works published:* Sir William Alexander, Recreations with the Muses, contains Four Monarchicke Tragedies,...
) - Robert HerrickRobert Herrick (poet)Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English poet.-Early life:Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith....
(15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
–16741674 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, France, L'Œuvres diverses du sieur D...., including:...
) - George HerbertGeorge HerbertGeorge Herbert was a Welsh born English poet, orator and Anglican priest.Being born into an artistic and wealthy family, he received a good education that led to his holding prominent positions at Cambridge University and Parliament. As a student at Trinity College, Cambridge, Herbert excelled in...
(15931593 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the...
–16331633 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Abraham Cowley, Poetical Blossomes...
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France
- Jean MolinetJean MolinetJean Molinet was a French poet, chronicler, and composer. He is best remembered for his prose translation of Roman de la rose.Born in Desvres, which is now part of France, he studied in Paris...
(1435–15071507 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* William Dunbar, publication year uncertain; also contains the author's "Lament for the Makaris", "Kynd Kittok", and "The Testament of Mr. Andro...
), 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, chronicler, and composer - Olivier de la MarcheOlivier de la MarcheOlivier de la Marche was a courtier, soldier, chronicler and poet in the last decades of the independent Duchy of Burgundy. He was close to Charles the Bold, and after his death held the important position of maître d'hotel to his daughter Mary of Burgundy, and her husband, and was sent on a...
(1426–15011501 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet, writes , approximately this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:* Gavin...
), 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 author - Clement MarotClément MarotClément Marot was a French poet of the Renaissance period.-Youth:Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497. His father, Jean Marot , whose more correct name appears to have been des Mares, Marais or Marets, was a Norman from the Caen...
(1496–15441544 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere , lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late...
) - Marguerite de NavarreMarguerite de NavarreMarguerite de Navarre , also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was the queen consort of Henry II of Navarre...
(1492–15491549 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, France:** L'Olive, the first sonnet sequence written in France...
) - Bonaventure des PériersBonaventure des PériersBonaventure des Périers was a French author.He was born of a noble family at Arnay-le-duc in Burgundy at the end of the fifteenth century....
(c. 15011501 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet, writes , approximately this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:* Gavin...
– 15441544 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere , lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late...
) - Louise LabeLouise LabéLouise Labé, , also identified as La Belle Cordière, , was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet...
(15261526 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published:** The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition...
–15661566 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...
) - Maurice SceveMaurice ScèveMaurice Scève , French poet, was born at Lyon, where his father practised law.He was the centre of the Lyonnese côterie that elaborated the theory of spiritual love, derived partly from Plato and partly from Petrarch...
(15111511 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain ; a popular fabliau; Great Britain* Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian...
–15641564 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Ivančice hymn-book, a revised edition of the Polish-language Šamotulský kancionál 1561; a Czech poet* Helius Eobanus Hessus, Idyls, German writing in...
) - Pierre de RonsardPierre de RonsardPierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
(15241524 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
–15851585 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Giordano Bruno, Italy:** L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes...
) - Joachim du BellayJoachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade.-Biography:He was born at the Château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.Both his parents...
(15251525 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century* Pietro Bembo,...
–15601560 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France...
) - Jean de SpondeJean de SpondeJean de Sponde was a Baroque French poet.- Biography :Born at Mauléon, in what is now Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Jean de Sponde was raised in an austere Protestant family in the Basque region of France with close relations with the royal court of Navarre...
(15571557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held...
–15951595 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...
) - Jean de la Ceppede (15501530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
–16221622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
) - Agrippa d'AubigneAgrippa d'AubignéThéodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné was a French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques is widely regarded as his masterpiece.-Life:...
(15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
–16301630 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Davenant, Ieffereidos...
) - François de MalherbeFrançois de MalherbeFrançois de Malherbe was a French poet, critic, and translator.-Life:Born in Le-Locheur , his family was of some position, though it seems not to have been able to establish to the satisfaction of heralds the claims which it made to nobility older than the 16th century.He was the eldest son of...
(15551555 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:*Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, France* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Francine...
–16281628 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law...
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French-language Swiss
- Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné (15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
–16301630 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Davenant, Ieffereidos...
) - Simon GoulartSimon GoulartSimon Goulart was a French Reformed theologian, humanist and poet.-Life:He was born at Senlis in northern France. He first studied law, then adopted the Reformed...
(15831543 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics .-Works published:* Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la...
–16281628 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law...
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Germany
- Erasmus AlberusErasmus AlberusErasmus Alberus , German humanist, reformer, and poet, was born in the village of Bruchenbrücken about the year 1500. Although his father was a schoolmaster, his early education was neglected....
(c. 15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
–15531553 in poetry— Opening lines from Gavin Douglas' Eneados, a translation, into Middle Scots of Virgil's Aeneid-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib...
) - Johann Valentin Andreae (15861586 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard, The Epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney * Thomas Deloney:** The Lamentation of Beckles, a ballad** A Most Joyfull Songe, a ballad* William Warner,...
–16541654 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Aylet, Divine, and Moral Speculations in Metrical Numbers, Upon Various Subjects, including previously published verses along with "The Song of Songs" and "The Brides Ornaments",...
) - Johann Beltz (15291529 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Solomon and Marcolphus, publication year uncertain, England...
–15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
) - Sebastian BrantSebastian BrantSebastian Brant was an Alsatian humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff .-Biography:...
(1457 or 1458 – 15211521 in poetry* Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog" * Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St...
) - Conrad Celtis (1459–15081508 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Scotland:* Anonymous, Golagros and Gawain, a Middle Scots romance written in the late 15th century in alliterative metre; based on two episodes from the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval, ou...
) - Nikolaus Decius (1485 – after 15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
) - Johann FischartJohann FischartJohann Fischart was a German satirist and publicist.-Biography:Fischart was born, probably, at Strasbourg , in or about the year 1545, and was educated at Worms in the house of Kaspar Scheid, whom in the preface to his Eulenspiegel he mentions as his cousin and preceptor...
(15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
or 15471547 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans, an dizain,...
– 15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
) - Hans FolzHans FolzHans Folz was a German author of the late medieval or early Renaissance period.Folz was born in Worms. He was made a citizen of the city of Nuremberg, Germany in 1459 and master barber of the city in 1486. Folz was a reformer of the meistersangs, adding 27 new tones to those that had been...
(1435/1440 – 15131513 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas completed the Eneados, a complete Scots translation of Virgil's Aeneid and the first full and faithful translation into any Germanic language of a major poem from classical antiquity.*...
) - Sebastian FranckSebastian FranckSebastian Franck was a 16th century German freethinker, humanist, and radical reformer.Franck was born about 1499 at Donauwörth, Bavaria. Because of this he styled himself Franck von Word...
(1499 – 15421542 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of Perpignan-Great Britain:...
or 15431543 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics .-Works published:* Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la...
) - Konrad Gesner (15161516 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version , Italy...
–15651565 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain...
) - Johann HeermannJohann HeermannJohann Heermann was a German poet and hymn-writer. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church on 26 October with Philipp Nicolai and Paul Gerhardt.- Life :...
(15851585 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Giordano Bruno, Italy:** L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes...
–16471647 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Richard Corbet, Certain Elegant Poems, edited by John Donne the younger...
) - Nikolaus Herman (c. 15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
–15611561 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse...
) - Mathias Holtzwart (c. 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...
– after 15891589 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 1588 -Great Britain:...
) - Anna Ovena HoyerAnna Ovena HoyerAnna Ovena Hoyer was a writer and poet, originally German; active in Sweden from 1632...
(15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
–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...
) - Ulrich von HuttenUlrich von HuttenUlrich von Hutten was a German scholar, poet and reformer. He was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church and a bridge between the humanists and the Lutheran Reformation...
(1488–15231523 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, The Mirror of Good Manners, publication year uncertain, translated from Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus, in English and Latin; London: Richard Pynson* Hans Sachs,...
) - Georg List (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,...
–15961596 in poetry— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of AjaxNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:...
) - Ambrosius Lobwasser (15151515 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, Saint George, translated from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus; Great Britain...
–15851585 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Giordano Bruno, Italy:** L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes...
) - Martin LutherMartin LutherMartin Luther was a German priest, professor of theology and iconic figure of the Protestant Reformation. He strongly disputed the claim that freedom from God's punishment for sin could be purchased with money. He confronted indulgence salesman Johann Tetzel with his Ninety-Five Theses in 1517...
(1483–15461546 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Luigi Alamanni, La Coltivazione, didactic poem written in imitation of Virgil's Georgics, Italian writer published in Paris, France* Ludovico Ariosto, Le Rime de M...
) - Philipp MelanchthonPhilipp MelanchthonPhilipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
(1497–15601560 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France...
) - Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–15251525 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century* Pietro Bembo,...
) - Philipp NicolaiPhilipp NicolaiPhilipp Nicolai was a German Lutheran pastor, poet, and composer, author of two famous hymns: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern...
(15561556 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Rémy Belleau:** Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French** Petites Inventions...
–16081608 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Mary Arden Shakespeare, the mother of William Shakespeare, died this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or...
) - Martin Opitz (15971597 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Breton:...
–16391639 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Davenport, A Crowne for a Conquerour; and Too Late to Call Backe Yesterday* Henry Glapthorne, Poems...
) - Jakob Regnart (between 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...
and 15451545 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labé hosts a literary salon in Lyon, participants include Jean de Vauzelles, William and Maurice Scève, Pernette du Guillet, Lyonnais writers and intellectuals including Claude de...
– 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:...
) - Adam Reusner (1471/1496 – 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...
/15821582 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Philip Sidney , Astrophil and Stella* Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis...
) - Bartholomäus RingwaldtBartholomäus RingwaldtBartholomäus Ringwaldt was a German didactic poet and Lutheran theologian. His chorale Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut is the base for Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut, BWV 113...
(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,...
– c. 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:...
) - Hans SachsHans SachsHans Sachs was a German meistersinger , poet, playwright and shoemaker.-Biography:Hans Sachs was born in Nuremberg . His father was a tailor. He attended Latin school in Nuremberg...
(1494–15761576 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology...
) - Paulus Schede Melissus (15391539 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Births:Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:...
–16021602 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Basse, Three Pastoral Elegies...
) - Johann Hermann Schein (15861586 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard, The Epitaph of Sir Phillip Sidney * Thomas Deloney:** The Lamentation of Beckles, a ballad** A Most Joyfull Songe, a ballad* William Warner,...
–16301630 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Davenant, Ieffereidos...
) - Johannes SecundusJohannes SecundusJohannes Secundus was a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality.- Early life and education :...
(15111511 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain ; a popular fabliau; Great Britain* Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian...
–15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
) - Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
–16351635 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
) - Paul SperatusPaul SperatusPaul Speratus was a Catholic priest who became a Protestant preacher and song-writer. In 1523, he helped Martin Luther to create the First Lutheran hymnal, published in 1524 and called Achtliederbuch.-Early life:...
(1484–15811581 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the...
) - Josua Stegmann (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:...
–16321632 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe...
) - Georg Rodolf Weckherlin (15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
–16531653 in poetryNationality 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...
) - Michael Weisse (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:...
–16341634 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Richard Brathwaite, Anniversaries upon his Panarete, anonymously published * Richard Crashaw, Epigrammatum Sacrorum Liber, published anonymously* William Habington, Castara, anonymously...
) - Diederich von dem Werder (15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
–16571657 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Billingsley, Brachy-Martyrologia* Henry Bold, Wit a Sporting in a Pleasant Grove of New Fancies...
) - Christoff Wirsung (c. 15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
–15711571 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Barbour, publication year conjectural, The Bruce, written 1376, posthumously published...
) - Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
–16351635 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
)
German-language Swiss
- Nicholas Manuel (1484–15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
)
Italy
- Benedetto Cariteo (1450–15141514 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Clément Marot presents Francis I of France his Judgment of Minos; appointed facteur de la reine to Queen Claude-Works published:* Francesco Maria Molzo, The Aeneid translation from the Latin of...
) - Teofilo FolengoTeofilo FolengoTeofilo Folengo , who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Coccaius, was one of the principal Italian macaronic poets.-Biography:...
(1491 – 15741574 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Muse chrétienne, a theoretical work that advocates a Christian poetry; published along with several didactic poems, including Judith, Uranie and Le...
) - Lodovico Ariosto (1474–15331533 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Maurice Sceve announces that he has found the tomb of "Laura", the woman who is the subject in so many poems by Petrarch, at the church of Santa Croce in Avignon...
), also a Latin poet - Torquato TassoTorquato TassoTorquato Tasso was an Italian poet of the 16th century, best known for his poem La Gerusalemme liberata , in which he depicts a highly imaginative version of the combats between Christians and Muslims at the end of the First Crusade, during the siege of Jerusalem...
(15441544 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere , lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late...
–15951595 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...
) - Pietro BemboPietro BemboPietro Bembo was an Italian scholar, poet, literary theorist, and cardinal. He was an influential figure in the development of the Italian language, specifically Tuscan, as a literary medium, and his writings assisted in the 16th-century revival of interest in the works of Petrarch...
(1470–15471547 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans, an dizain,...
), Cardinal and influential critic - Vittoria ColonnaVittoria ColonnaVittoria Colonna , marchioness of Pescara, was an Italian noblewoman and poet.-Biography:The daughter of Fabrizio Colonna, grand constable of the kingdom of Naples, and of Agnese da Montefeltro, Vittoria Colonna was born at Marinoa fief of the Colonna family in the Alban Hills near Rome.Betrothed...
(1492–15471547 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans, an dizain,...
) - Gaspara StampaGaspara StampaGaspara Stampa was an Italian poet.-Biography:Born in Padua, Stampa's father, Bartolomeo, originally from Milan, was a jewel and gold merchant in Padua. When Stampa was eight, her father died and her mother, Cecilia, moved to Venice with her children Gaspara, Cassandra, and Baldassarre; whom she...
(c. 15231523 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Alexander Barclay, The Mirror of Good Manners, publication year uncertain, translated from Dominic Mancini's De quatuor virtutibus, in English and Latin; London: Richard Pynson* Hans Sachs,...
–15541554 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Pierre de Ronsard:** Bocage** Meslanges...
), woman poet - Antonio Sebastiano Minturno (15591559 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum,...
–15651565 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain...
), writer and poet
Japan
- Arakida MoritakeArakida Moritakewas a Japanese poet who excelled in the fields of waka, renga, and in particular haikai. He was the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shintoist. At the age of 69, he became head priest of the Inner Ise Shrine.Moritake's most famous poem:...
荒木田守武 (1473–15491549 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, France:** L'Olive, the first sonnet sequence written in France...
), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in wakaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
, rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
, and in particular haikaiHaikaiHaikai is a poetic genre that includes a number of forms which embrace the aesthetics of haikai no renga, and what Bashō referred to as the "poetic spirit" , including haiku, renku , haibun, haiga and senryū ."Haikai" is sometimes used as an abbreviation for "haikai no... - Hosokawa FujitakaHosokawa Fujitakawas a Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period. Also known as '. Fujitaka was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns. When he joined the Oda, Oda Nobunaga rewarded him with the fief of Tango. His son, Hosokawa Tadaoki, went on to become one of the Oda clan's senior generals.After the...
細川藤孝, also known as Hosokawa Yūsai 細川幽斎 (15341534 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Louise Labbe met Clement Marot in the salon of William Scève's brother Maurice.-Works published:...
–16101610 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ben Jonson receives a royal pension, making him unofficially the first British Poet Laureate-Great Britain:...
), a Sengoku periodSengoku periodThe or Warring States period in Japanese history was a time of social upheaval, political intrigue, and nearly constant military conflict that lasted roughly from the middle of the 15th century to the beginning of the 17th century. The name "Sengoku" was adopted by Japanese historians in reference...
feudal warlord who was a prominent retainer of the last Ashikaga shoguns; father of Hosokawa TadaokiHosokawa Tadaokiwas the eldest son of Hosokawa Fujitaka. He fought in his first battle at the age of 15. In that battle, he was in the service of Oda Nobunaga. He was given the Province of Tango in 1580. Soon after that, he married Hosokawa Gracia, the daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide. In 1582, Akechi Mitsuhide...
, an Oda clanOda clanThe was a family of Japanese daimyo who were to become an important political force in the unification of Japan in the mid-16th century. Though they had the climax of their fame under Oda Nobunaga and fell from the spotlight soon after, several branches of the family would continue on as daimyo...
senior general; after the 1582 Incident at Honnō-ji, he took the Buddhist tonsure and changed his name to "Yūsai"; but he remained an active force in politics, under Shoguns Toyotomi HideyoshiToyotomi Hideyoshiwas a daimyo warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period. He unified the political factions of Japan. He succeeded his former liege lord, Oda Nobunaga, and brought an end to the Sengoku period. The period of his rule is often called the Momoyama period, named after Hideyoshi's castle...
and Tokugawa IeyasuTokugawa Ieyasuwas the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but... - Satomura ShokyuSatomura Shokyubecame the leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545. Before Sobuoko's death in 1545, Shokyu accepted the famous Joha as a pupil during the year of 1544. During the year of 1552, Shokyu laid on his death bed then on entrusting Joho with the leadership of the...
里村昌休 (15101510 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Merlin, based on the second of two versions of the Middle English romance Arthur and Merlin, itself derived ultimately from the Old French prose Merlin, part of the Arthurian...
–15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
leading master of the linked verse rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545 - SōgiSogiwas a Japanese poet. He came from a humble family from the province of Kii or Ōmi, and died in Hakone on September 1, 1502. Sōgi was a Zen monk from the Shokokuji temple in Kyoto and he studied poetry, both waka and renga...
宗祇 (1421–15021502 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Stephen Hawes appointed to Valet de chambre under Henry VII of England* Poet Laureate John Skelton imprisoned-Italy:...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
Zen monk who studied wakaWaka (poetry)Waka or Yamato uta is a genre of classical Japanese verse and one of the major genres of Japanese literature...
and rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s - Tani SoyoTani Soyo' was the son of Tani Sobuko. Sōyō was known as one of the most talented renga composers of his era. Being mainly known at being a rival of the famed composer, Satomura Joha, who was the leading master of the linked verse after Sōyō's death....
谷宗養 (15261526 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published:** The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition...
–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...
), rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko - Yamazaki SōkanYamazaki SokanYamazaki Sōkan was a renga and haikai poet from Ōmi Province, Japan. His real name was Shina Norishige, and he was also called Yasaburō; "Yamazaki Sōkan" was a pen-name ....
山崎宗鑑, pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
of Shina Norishige (1465–15531553 in poetry— Opening lines from Gavin Douglas' Eneados, a translation, into Middle Scots of Virgil's Aeneid-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib...
), rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
and haikaiHaikaiHaikai is a poetic genre that includes a number of forms which embrace the aesthetics of haikai no renga, and what Bashō referred to as the "poetic spirit" , including haiku, renku , haibun, haiga and senryū ."Haikai" is sometimes used as an abbreviation for "haikai no...
poet, court calligrapher for Shogun Ashikaga YoshihisaAshikaga Yoshihisawas the 9th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate who reigned from 1473 to 1489 during the Muromachi period of Japan. Yoshihisa was the son of the eighth shogun Ashikaga Yoshimasa....
; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shogun's death in 1489
Latin
- Battista Spagnoli (1447–15161516 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, earliest published version , Italy...
), Italian - Giovanni Pontano (1429–15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
), Italian - Michael Marullus (c. 1453–15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
), Italian - Jacopo SannazaroJacopo SannazaroJacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of...
(1458–15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
), Italian - Andrea Navagero (1483–15291529 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Solomon and Marcolphus, publication year uncertain, England...
), Italian - Girolamo FracastoroGirolamo FracastoroGirolamo Fracastoro was an Italian physician, poet, and scholar in mathematics, geography and astronomy. Fracastoro subscribed to the philosophy of atomism, and rejected appeals to hidden causes in scientific investigation....
(1483–15531553 in poetry— Opening lines from Gavin Douglas' Eneados, a translation, into Middle Scots of Virgil's Aeneid-Works published:* Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib...
), Italian - Marcantonio FlaminioMarcantonio FlaminioMarcantonio Flaminio , also known as Marcus Antonius Flaminius, was an Italian humanist poet, known for his Neo-Latin works. During his life, he toured the courts and literary centers of Italy. He was also a supporter of the Reformed Church...
(1498–15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
), Italian - Marco Girolamo VidaMarco Girolamo VidaMarco Girolamo Vida or Marcus Hieronymus Vida was an Italian humanist, bishop and poet. Born at Cremona, Vida joined the court of Pope Leo X and was given a prior at Frascati. He became bishop of Alba in 1532....
(1485–15661566 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...
), Italian - Conrad Celtis (1459–15081508 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Scotland:* Anonymous, Golagros and Gawain, a Middle Scots romance written in the late 15th century in alliterative metre; based on two episodes from the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval, ou...
), German - Salmon Macrin (1490–15571557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held...
), French - Joannes Secundus (15111511 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain ; a popular fabliau; Great Britain* Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian...
–15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
), Dutch - Lodovico Ariosto (1474–15331533 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Maurice Sceve announces that he has found the tomb of "Laura", the woman who is the subject in so many poems by Petrarch, at the church of Santa Croce in Avignon...
), Italian who also published poetry in Italian - Joachim Du BellayJoachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade.-Biography:He was born at the Château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.Both his parents...
(c. 15251525 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, King Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in the early 14th century; freely adapted from Thomas of Kent's Roman de toute chevalerie of the 12th century* Pietro Bembo,...
–15601560 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France...
), Frenchman who also published poetry in French - Jan KochanowskiJan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
(15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
–15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
), Pole who also published poetry in Polish - Maciej Kazimierz SarbiewskiMaciej Kazimierz SarbiewskiMaciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski , was Europe's most prominent Latin poet of the 17th century, and a renowned theoretician of poetics.-Life:...
(15951595 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...
–16401640 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according...
), Polish Jesuit and poet - Jacob Balde (16041604 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir William Alexander:** Aurora** A Paraenesis to the Prince...
–16681668 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* John Dryden becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Sir William Davenant. Dryden held the office until 1688 when, after James II of England was deposed, the poet refused to swear allegiance...
), German Jesuit and poet
Netherlands
- Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle (15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
–16481648 in poetryTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year...
) - Suster Bertken (1426 or 1427–15141514 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Clément Marot presents Francis I of France his Judgment of Minos; appointed facteur de la reine to Queen Claude-Works published:* Francesco Maria Molzo, The Aeneid translation from the Latin of...
) - Anna BijnsAnna BijnsAnna Bijns was a writer, schoolteacher and nun who taught until she was 80 years old.-Biography:The elder daughter of a tailor and rederijker, she opened a school in Antwerp with her brother Martin, following the death of her father and marriage of her sister. Anna Bijns was one of the rare women...
(1493–15751575 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:*Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers...
) - Adriaen Valerius (15701570 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley* Torquato Tasso...
/15751575 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:*Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers...
–16251625 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
) - Joost van den VondelJoost van den VondelJoost van den Vondel was a Dutch writer and playwright. He is considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century. His plays are the ones from that period that are still most frequently performed, and his epic Joannes de Boetgezant , on the life of John the Baptist, has...
(15871587 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse...
–16791679 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Abraham Cowley, A Poem on the late Civil War...
), Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
Ottoman Empire
- BâkîBâkîBâḳî was the pen name of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî...
(باقى) (15261526 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published:** The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition...
–16001600 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered * Nicholas Breton:** Melancholike Humours** Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message **...
) - FuzûlîFuzûlîFużūlī was the pen name of the Azerbaijani or the Bayat branch of Oghuz Turkish and Ottoman poet, writer and thinker Muhammad bin Suleyman...
(فضولی) (c. 1483–15561556 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Rémy Belleau:** Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French** Petites Inventions...
) - HayâlîHayâlîHayâlî was the pen name of an Ottoman poet.- Life :Hayâlî lived in the Divan tradition. Though the exact birth date of the poet later called Hayâlî is not known, it is known that he was born during the reign of Sultan Bâyezîd II , in the city of Yenice-i Vardar in Macedonia...
(خيالى) (c. 15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
–15571557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held...
) - NecatiNecatiNecati is a Turkish given name for males. People named Necati include:* Necati Ateş, Turkish footballer* Necati Çelim , Turkish politician* Necati Cumalı , Turkish writer* Necati Şaşmaz, Turkish actor...
(died 15091509 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Richard Coeur de Lion, written about 1300, a mix of historical and romance elements...
) - Selim IISelim IISelim II Sarkhosh Hashoink , also known as "Selim the Sot " or "Selim the Drunkard"; and as "Sarı Selim" or "Selim the Blond", was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574.-Early years:He was born in Constantinople a son of Suleiman the...
(15241524 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
–15741574 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Muse chrétienne, a theoretical work that advocates a Christian poetry; published along with several didactic poems, including Judith, Uranie and Le...
), sultan and poet - Suleyman the Magnificent (ca. 1495–15661566 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...
) - Tashcali Yahya Bey (died 15821582 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Philip Sidney , Astrophil and Stella* Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis...
) - Ruhi-i Bagdadi (died 16051605 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton:** The Honour of Valour** The Soules Immortall Crowne...
) - Nef'iNef'iNef'i was an Ottoman poet and satirist.-Biography:Nef'i entered military service as a quartermaster with Grand Vizier Kuyucu Murad Pasha during his suppression of the Jelali revolts in Anatolia in the early 17th century...
(15821582 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Philip Sidney , Astrophil and Stella* Richard Stanyhurst, The First Foure Bookes of Virgil his Aneis...
–16351635 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
) - Seyhulislam Yahya (15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
–16441644 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Cleveland, The Character of a London Diurnall, anonymously published* Francis Quarles:...
) - Pir Sultan AbdalPir Sultan AbdalPir Sultan Abdal was a legendary Turkish Alevi poet, whose direct and clear language as well as the richness of his imagination and the beauty of his verses led him to become loved among the Turkish people. Pir Sultan Abdal reflected the social, cultural and religious life of the people; he was a...
(c. 1480–15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
)
Persian language
- Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546-1620)
- Vahshi Bafghi
Poland
- Biernat of LublinBiernat of LublinBiernat of Lublin was a Polish poet, fabulist, translator and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones...
(c. 1465 – after 15291529 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Solomon and Marcolphus, publication year uncertain, England...
) - Mikolaj RejMikolaj RejMikołaj Rej or Mikołaj Rey of Nagłowice was a leading Polish poet and prose writer of the Renaissance, as well as a politician and musician...
(15051505 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century * Anonymous, Octavian, publication...
–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...
) - Jan KochanowskiJan KochanowskiJan Kochanowski was a Polish Renaissance poet who established poetic patterns that would become integral to Polish literary language.He is commonly regarded as the greatest Polish poet before Adam Mickiewicz, and the greatest Slavic poet, prior to the 19th century.-Life:Kochanowski was born at...
(15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
–15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
) - Mikolaj Sep SzarzynskiMikolaj Sep SzarzynskiMikołaj Sęp Szarzyński was an influential Polish poet of the late Renaissance who wrote in both Polish and Latin. He was a pioneer of the Baroque and the greatest representative of the metaphysical movement of the era in Poland. His love poems are often classed as mannerist...
(c. 15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
– c. 15811581 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the...
) - Sebastian Grabowiecki (ca. 15431543 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics .-Works published:* Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la...
–16071607 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works...
) - Sebastian Fabian Klonowic (ca. 15451545 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labé hosts a literary salon in Lyon, participants include Jean de Vauzelles, William and Maurice Scève, Pernette du Guillet, Lyonnais writers and intellectuals including Claude de...
–16021602 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Basse, Three Pastoral Elegies...
) - Szymon SzymonowicSzymon SzymonowicSzymon Szymonowic was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."-Life:Szymonowic studied in Poland , France and Belgium...
(15581558 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Joachim du Bellay, France:** Des Antiquités de Rome...
–16291629 in poetryNationality 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...
) - Daniel NaborowskiDaniel NaborowskiDaniel Naborowski was a Polish Baroque poet.Daniel Naborowski was born in Cracow. His education took place not only in Cracow, but also at Wittenberg and Basle . In Basle he studied medicine, in Orléans he studied law, and from Galileo in Padua he learned military engineering...
(15731573 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Cristóbal de Castillejo, Works of Castillejo Expurgated by the Inquisition, published posthumously in Madrid, Spain...
–16401640 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Francis Beaumont, Poems, including a translation from the Latin of Ovid's Metamorphoses, which might not be by Beaumont; several other poems in the book are definitely not by him, according...
) - Kasper Miakskowski (15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
–16221622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
)
Portugal
- Garcia de ResendeGarcia de ResendeGarcia de Resende was a Portuguese poet and editor. He served John II as a page and private secretary, and later became a knight in the Order of Christ...
(c. 1470–15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
) - Gil VicenteGil VicenteGil Vicente , called the Trobadour, was a Portuguese playwright and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus,"[3] often referred to as the "Father of Portuguese drama" and as one of Western literature's...
(c. 1465 – c. 15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
), poet and playwright - Francisco de Sá de MirandaFrancisco de Sá de MirandaFrancisco de Sá de Miranda was a Portuguese poet of the Renaissance.-Life:Sá de Miranda was the son of a canon of Coimbra belonging to the ancient and noble family of Sa...
(c. 1481–15581558 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Joachim du Bellay, France:** Des Antiquités de Rome...
) - Bernardim RibeiroBernardim RibeiroBernardim Ribeiro was a Portuguese poet and writer. His father, Damião Ribeiro, was implicated in the conspiracy against John II of Portugal...
(1482–15521552 in poetry-French:* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline* Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes* Pierre Ronsard, France:** Fifth Book of Odes ** Les Amours de P...
) - Cristovao Falcao (15181518 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for use in St Paul's School .-Great Britain:...
– c. 15571557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held...
) - Luís de CamõesLuís de CamõesLuís Vaz de Camões is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare, Vondel, Homer, Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os Lusíadas...
(c. 15241524 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Pietro Bembo, , the author's most influential work, a prose treatise on writing poetry in Italian; discussed verse composition in detail, including rhyme, stress, the sounds of words,...
–15801580 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the...
) - Diogo Bernardes (c. 15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
– c. 16051605 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton:** The Honour of Valour** The Soules Immortall Crowne...
), brother of Frei Agostinho da Cruz - Frei Agostinho da Cruz (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...
–16191619 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ben Jonson becomes poet laureate of England, succeeding Samuel Daniel, who died this year * Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg-Works published:*...
), brother of Diogo Bernardes - Francisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues LoboFrancisco Rodrigues Lobo was a Portuguese poet and bucolic writer.He was born of rich and noble parents but of Sephardi Portuguese ancestry in Leiria, reading philosophy, poetry and writing of shepherds and shepherdesses by the rivers Liz and Lena. He studied at the University of Coimbra and took...
(c. 15801580 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the...
–16211622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
) - Antonio de Ferreira
- Clement MarotClément MarotClément Marot was a French poet of the Renaissance period.-Youth:Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497. His father, Jean Marot , whose more correct name appears to have been des Mares, Marais or Marets, was a Norman from the Caen...
(1496–15441544 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere , lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late...
) - Mellin de Saint Gelais (1491–15581558 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Joachim du Bellay, France:** Des Antiquités de Rome...
)
Slovakia
- Martin RakovskýMartin RakovskýMárton Rakovszky de Rákó was a Renaissance era Hungarian poet and humanist scholar who lived in what is modern day Slovakia during the mid 16th century...
(15351535 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for schoolboys studying Latin poetry in Braunschweig; at the same time, the work is used in schools in Nordlingen, Memmingen and Emmerich-Works published:*...
–15791579 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:*Thomas Churchyard, A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders, including two poems Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or...
) - Ján Silván (1493–15731573 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Cristóbal de Castillejo, Works of Castillejo Expurgated by the Inquisition, published posthumously in Madrid, Spain...
) - Pavel Kyrmezer (birth year not known – 15891589 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 1588 -Great Britain:...
) - Vavřinec Benedikt z Nudožer (Laurentio Benedictino Nudozierino) (15551555 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:*Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, France* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Francine...
–16151615 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Andrewes, The Anatomie of Basenesse; or, The Foure Quarters of a Knave...
) - Ján Filický ( c. 15851585 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Giordano Bruno, Italy:** L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes...
–16231623 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope-Great Britain:...
) - Ján Bocatius (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...
–16211621 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Ashmore, translator, Certain Selected Odes of Horace, Englished; and their Arguments Annexed* Richard Brathwaite:...
) - Jakub Jakobeus (15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
–16451645 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Francis Quarles, Solomons Recantatiion, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased...
) - Martin Bošňák (birth year not known – 15661566 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...
) - Štefan Komodický (16th century)
- Eliáš Láni (15701570 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley* Torquato Tasso...
–16181618 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days...
) - Daniel Pribiš (15801580 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the...
–16451645 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Francis Quarles, Solomons Recantatiion, entitled Ecclesiastes Paraphrased...
) - Juraj Tranovský or Tranoscius (15921592 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, The Pilgrimage to Paradise...
–16371637 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson -Works published:* Sir William Alexander, Recreations with the Muses, contains Four Monarchicke Tragedies,...
)
South Asia
- AkhoAkhoAkha Bhagat was a medieval period poet in Gujarati literature who wrote in the tradition of the Bhakti movement. He kept Gujarati literature alive and wrote his poems in pattern which is called "chhappa" .- History :He came to Ahmedabad from Jetalpur in the 17th Century...
(15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
–16591659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....
), Gujarati-language poet, Vedantist and radical - Bhalam (c. 1426–15001500 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural,...
), Gujarati-language poet - Sant Eknath संत एकनाथ or Eknāth; the epithet "sant" संत is traditionally given to persons regarded as thoroughly saintly (15331533 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Maurice Sceve announces that he has found the tomb of "Laura", the woman who is the subject in so many poems by Petrarch, at the church of Santa Croce in Avignon...
–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:...
), MarathiMarathi poetry-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
-language poet and scholar - Sant Tukaram संत तुकाराम (birth-year estimates range from 15771577 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Breton:** The Works of a Young Wit** A Flourish upon Fancy...
–-16091609 in poetry— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
– died 16501650 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia...
), MarathiMarathi poetry-Earliest Prominent Marathi Poetry:The two poets, Namadev and Dnyaneshwar , wrote the earliest significant poetry in Marathi. They were respectively born in 1270 and 1275 CE in Maharashtra, India, and both wrote religious poetry. A little over 400 verses in the so-called “abhang” form are...
-language poet - KrishnadevarayaKrishnadevarayaŚrī Kriṣhṇa Devarāya , , , and also known as Krishna Devarayulu in some inscriptions was the famed Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire who reigned from 1509–1529 CE.He is the third ruler of the Tuluva Dynasty. Presiding over the empire at its zenith, he is regarded as an icon by many Indians...
(died 15291529 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Solomon and Marcolphus, publication year uncertain, England...
), king of the Vijayanagara empireVijayanagara EmpireThe Vijayanagara Empire , referred as the Kingdom of Bisnaga by the Portuguese, was an empire based in South Indian in the Deccan Plateau region. It was established in 1336 by Harihara I and his brother Bukka Raya I of the Yadava lineage. The empire rose to prominence as a culmination of attempts...
and Sanskrit-language poet - AnnamacharyaAnnamacharyaSri Tallapaka Annamacharya was the official songmaster of the Tirumala Venkateswara Temple, and a Telugu composer who composed around 36000 keertana songs, many of which were in praise of Venkateswara, the presiding deity of the temple...
శ్రీ తాళ్ళపాక అన్నమాచార్య (1408–15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
), mystic saint composer of the 15th century, widely regarded as the TeluguTelugu poetryTelugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
-language pada kavita pitaamaha (grand old man of simple poetry); husband of Tallapaka Tirumalamma - MollaMolla (poetess)Atukuri Molla was a famous Telugu poetess who authored the Telugu-language Ramayana. She was popularly known as Molla or Mollamamba.-Biography:...
, also known as "Mollamamba", both popular names of Atukuri Molla (1440–15301530 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from this year to 1537, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
) TeluguTelugu poetryTelugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
-language poet who wrote Telugu Ramayan; a woman - Potana, born Bammera Pothana (1450–15101510 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Merlin, based on the second of two versions of the Middle English romance Arthur and Merlin, itself derived ultimately from the Old French prose Merlin, part of the Arthurian...
), TeluguTelugu poetryTelugu poetry is verse originating in the southern provinces of India, predominantly from modern Andhra Pradesh and some corners of Tamilnadu and Karnataka.- Origins :...
-language poet best known for his translation of the Bhagavata PuranaBhagavata puranaThe Bhāgavata Purāṇa is one of the "Maha" Puranic texts of Hindu literature, with its primary focus on bhakti to the incarnations of Vishnu, particularly Krishna...
from SanskritSanskritSanskrit , is a historical Indo-Aryan language and the primary liturgical language of Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism.Buddhism: besides Pali, see Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Today, it is listed as one of the 22 scheduled languages of India and is an official language of the state of Uttarakhand...
; the book is popularly known as Pothana Bhagavatham - Habba KhatunHabba KhatunHabba Khatun was a 16th century Muslim poet from the village of Chandrahar of Kashmir. She was born in the small village Chandrahar, and was known under the name Zoon because of her immense beauty until her marriage with Yusuf Shah Chak, who later became ruler of Kashmir, after which she was...
- Meerabai (मीराबाई) (1498–15471547 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:* Joachim du Bellay, À la ville du Mans, an dizain,...
), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint, mysticalMysticismMysticism is the knowledge of, and especially the personal experience of, states of consciousness, i.e. levels of being, beyond normal human perception, including experience and even communion with a supreme being.-Classical origins:...
poetess whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout IndiaIndian poetryIndian poetry, and Indian literature in general, has a long history dating back to Vedic times. They were written in various Indian languages such as Vedic Sanskrit, Classical Sanskrit, Oriya, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali and Urdu. Poetry in foreign languages such as Persian and English also have a... - Gosvāmī TulsīdāsTulsidasTulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...
तुलसीदास, also known as "Tulasī Dāsa" and "Tulsidas" (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,...
–16231623 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope-Great Britain:...
) Awadhi poet and philosopher
Spain
- Juan Boscan (c. 1490–15421542 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of Perpignan-Great Britain:...
) - Garcilasco de la Vega (15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
–15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
) - Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (15031503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Italian poet Ludovico Ariosto begins writing Orlando Furioso -Works published:* Anonymous, Sir Tryamour, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th century* William...
–15751575 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:*Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers...
) - Hernando de AcunaHernando de AcuñaHernando de Acuña , a native of Valladolid, was a favorite of Charles V, not only for his military, but for his literary talents. His translation of the well-known romance of Olivier de la Marche, under the title of El Cavallero Determinado, was much esteemed by the emperor; so indeed were his...
(c. 15201520 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great...
–15801580 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the...
) - Baltasar del AlcazarBaltasar del AlcázarBaltasar del Alcázar was a Spanish poet from Seville, Spain. His poetry was about life and love, most of it spiced with a keen sense of humor.A short example of his poetry is Tres Cosas :Tres cosas me tienen preso...
(15901590 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* With the encouragement of Sir Walter Ralegh, Edmund Spenser joins him on a trip to London, where Ralegh presented the celebrated poet to Queen Elizabeth I.-Works:* George Peele, Polyhymnia* Edmund...
–16161616 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals. The Second Booke...
) - Francisco de Aldana (15371537 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, Boccus and Sydrake, publication year uncertain but sometime from 1530 to this year, edited by John Twyne, an encyclopedia in dialogue form, derived from the Old French Sidrac, in...
–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,...
) - Gutierre de CetinaGutierre de CetinaGutierre de Cetina a Spanish poet and soldier, was born at Seville. He was the brother of Beltrán and Gregorio de Cetina, lesser known conquistadors. He served under Charles V in Italy and Germany, but retired from the army in 1545 to settle in Seville...
(15201520 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great...
– c. 15571557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held...
) - Cristobal de CastillejoCristóbal de CastillejoCristóbal de Castillejo was a Spanish poet, contemporary of Garcilaso de la Vega and Juan Boscán, who championed the use of traditional forms of Spanish poetry and criticized the use of Italianate forms such as the sonnet....
(c. 1490–15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
) - Luis de Leon (15271527 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Skelton, , publication year uncertain; also contains "Upon a Dead Man's Head" and "Womanhood, Wanton ye want"...
–15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
) - San Juan de la Cruz (15421542 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of Perpignan-Great Britain:...
–15911591 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life -Great Britain:* Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights* Thomas Campion, Astrophel...
) - Alonso de Ledesma (15621562 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Brice, Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting...
–16231623 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope-Great Britain:...
) - Lope de VegaLope de VegaFélix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio was a Spanish playwright and poet. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature...
(15621562 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Brice, Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting...
–16351635 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
), playwright and poet - Fernando de HerreraFernando de HerreraFernando de Herrera , called "El Divino", was a 16th-century Spanish poet and man of letters. He was born in Seville. Much of what is known about him comes from Libro de descripción de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones by Francisco Pacheco.-Biography:Although...
(15341534 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Louise Labbe met Clement Marot in the salon of William Scève's brother Maurice.-Works published:...
–15971597 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Breton:...
) - Luis Barahona de SotoLuis Barahona de SotoLuis Barahona de Soto was a Spanish poet.Born at Lucena , he was educated at Granada, and practised as a physician at Cordoba. His major work is the Primera parte de la Angélica , a continuation of the Orlando furioso...
(15481548 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Sir David Lindsay , , publication year uncertain* Luke Shepherd:** Antipus...
–15951595 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...
) - Pedro de Espinosa (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,...
–16501650 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia...
) - Francisco de RiojaFrancisco de RiojaFrancisco de Rioja was a Spanish poet. Rioja was a canon of Seville Cathedral and a member of the Supreme Inquisition.-Works:...
(15831583 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Sir Philip Sidney is knighted*William Shakespeare's first daughter Susanna is born-France:...
–16591659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....
) - Francisco de MedranoFrancisco de MedranoFrancisco de Medrano was a Spanish poet....
(15701570 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley* Torquato Tasso...
–16071607 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works...
) - 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...
(15331533 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Maurice Sceve announces that he has found the tomb of "Laura", the woman who is the subject in so many poems by Petrarch, at the church of Santa Croce in Avignon...
– c. 15961596 in poetry— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of AjaxNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published in English:...
)
Other
- Jeong CheolJeong CheolJeong Cheol was a Korean statesman and poet. He used the pen-names Gyeham and Songgang, and studied under Kim Yunjae at Hwanbyeokdang.-Literary works:...
(15361536 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Bernardino Daniello, La poetica, criticism...
–15931593 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the...
), 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 :...
poet - Hwang Jin-iHwang Jin-iHwang Jin-i , also known by her gisaeng name Myeongwol , is one of the most famous gisaeng of the Joseon Dynasty who lived during the reign of King Jungjong. She was noted for her exceptional beauty, charming quick wit, and extraordinary intellect...
(15221522 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Biernat of Lublin, Zywot Ezopa , published about this year, Poland...
–15651565 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain...
), 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 :...
poet - Judah Leone ModenaLeon of ModenaLeon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena was a Jewish scholar born in Venice of a notable French family that had migrated to Italy after an expulsion of Jews from France.-Life:...
, also known as: Leon Modena or Yehudah Aryeh Mi-modena (15711571 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Barbour, publication year conjectural, The Bruce, written 1376, posthumously published...
-16481648 in poetryTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year...
), a rabbi, orator, scholar, teacher and poet - Israel ben Moses NajaraIsrael ben Moses NajaraIsrael ben Moses Najara was a Jewish liturgical poet, preacher, Biblical commentator, kabbalist, and rabbi of Gaza.- Biography :...
(c. 15551555 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-France:*Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, France* Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Francine...
– c. 16251625 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Thomas Heywood:...
), HebrewHebrew poetryHebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language. It encompasses such things as:* Biblical poetry, the poetry found in the poetic books of the Hebrew Bible* Piyyut, religious Jewish liturgical poetry in Hebrew or Aramaic...
poet in Palestine - Ali-Shir Nava'i, also known as "Nizām al-Din"; pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
"Navā'ī" , meaning "the weeper" (1441 – 15011501 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet, writes , approximately this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).-Events:* Gavin...
), Central AsiaCentral AsiaCentral Asia is a core region of the Asian continent from the Caspian Sea in the west, China in the east, Afghanistan in the south, and Russia in the north...
n politician, mystic, linguist, painter, and poet of ChaghataiChagatai peopleThe Chagatai are one of the Tajik peoples of Uzbekistan. The Chagatai live in the Surxondaryo Province in south-east Uzbekistan and in southern Tajikistan. They numbered 63,500 in 1924-25. Together with the Kharduri, the Chagatai are one of the ethnographic groups of Tajiks who maintain a...
origin who was born and lived in HeratHeratHerāt is the capital of Herat province in Afghanistan. It is the third largest city of Afghanistan, with a population of about 397,456 as of 2006. It is situated in the valley of the Hari River, which flows from the mountains of central Afghanistan to the Karakum Desert in Turkmenistan...
, in modern-day AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...
; his Chagatai languageChagatai languageThe Chagatai language is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early twentieth century...
(Middle TurkicMiddle TurkicMiddle Turkic refers to a phase in the development of the Turkic language family, covering much of the Middle Ages . In particular the term is used by linguists to refer to a group of Oghuz and related languages spoken during this period in Central Asia, Iran, and parts of the Middle East occupied...
) poetry has led many throughout the Turkic-speaking world to consider him the founder of early Turkic literature, and the Uzbeks claim him as their national poet
See also
- 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...
- Castalian BandCastalian BandThe Castalian Band was a group of Scottish Jacobean poets, or makars, which flourished between the 1580s and early 1590s in the court of James VI and was consciously modelled on the French example of the Pléiade. Its name is derived from the classical term Castalian Spring, a symbol for poetic...
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- 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...