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A. W. (poet) John Abbot (poet) Richard Adams (poet) William Alabaster; Alexander Radcliffe (writer) Charles Aleyn; Robert Allott; Thomas Andrewe; John Andrews (poet) Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel; Katherine Austen; Samuel Austin the younger; John Aylmer (classicist) Philip Ayres (poet)
Premanand (poet) (1640–1700) nonreligious Indian poet who wrote originally in Hindi, but when reprimanded by his guru, switched to Gujarati, which he vowed to develop into a language of fine literary expression [4] Wali Muhammad Wali, Wali Deccani (1667–1707), Urdu-language poet; Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699–1781), Urdu-language poet
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.
Dryden was born in the village rectory of Aldwincle near Thrapston in Northamptonshire, where his maternal grandfather was the rector of All Saints.He was the eldest of fourteen children born to Erasmus Dryden and wife Mary Pickering, paternal grandson of Sir Erasmus Dryden, 1st Barone t (1553–1632), and wife Frances Wilkes, Puritan landowning gentry who supported the Puritan cause and ...
The Baroque poetry replaced Mannerism and includes several schools, especially most artificial poetic style of the early 17th-century. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It involved Giambattista Marino , Lope de Vega , John Donne , Vincent Voiture , Pedro Calderón de la Barca , Georges de Scudéry , Georg Philipp Harsdörffer , John Milton , Andreas Gryphius , and ...
Metaphysical poets: A 17th-century English Baroque school using extended conceit, often (though not always) about religion [18] [19] John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell: Cavalier Poets: 17th-century English Baroque royalist poets, writing primarily about courtly love, called Sons of Ben (after Ben Jonson) [20] Richard Lovelace, William ...
The early 17th century saw the emergence of this group of poets who wrote in a witty, complicated style. The most famous of the Metaphysicals is probably John Donne. Others include George Herbert, Thomas Traherne, Henry Vaughan, Andrew Marvell, and Richard Crashaw. [10] John Milton in his Comus falls into this group. The Metaphysical poets went ...
1671–1696 – Madame de Sévigné writes her famous letters. Metaphysical poets - a term made by Samuel Johnson for a group of 17th century English poets. [2] German literature of the Baroque period