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The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1906) by Herbert J. C. Grierson. Periods of European Literature series, vol. 7. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons.
Years of the 17th century in literature (100 C, 100 P) Library buildings completed in the 17th century (5 P). 17th-century books (19 C, 29 P) 17th-century essays (6 C ...
A 17th-century Baroque movement in the Spanish literature, a similar to the Marinism [13] [14] Francisco de Quevedo, Baltasar Gracián: Culteranismo: Another 17th-century Spanish Baroque movement, in contrast to Conceptismo, characterized by an ornamental, ostentatious vocabulary and highly latinal syntax [15] [16]
Literature during the largely peaceful Edo Period, in large part to the rise of the working and middle classes in the new capital of Edo (modern Tokyo), developed forms of popular drama which would later evolve into kabuki. The joruri and kabuki dramatist Chikamatsu Monzaemon became popular at the end of the 17th century.
The 17th century lasted from January 1, 1601 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCI), to December 31, 1700 (MDCC).. It falls into the early modern period of Europe and in that continent (whose impact on the world was increasing) was characterized by the Baroque cultural movement, the latter part of the Spanish Golden Age, the Dutch Golden Age, [1] the French Grand Siècle dominated by Louis ...
Gargantua and Pantagruel was written by François Rabelais in five parts throughout the mid-16th century. It was an early influence of the novel, using an informal style and subversive humor. [61] The 17th century in France is known as the Grand Siècle (Great Century).
17th-century French literature was written throughout the Grand Siècle of France, spanning the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de' Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France.
The Welsh poetry of Gwilym Puw, who fought as a Captain in the Royalist Army and lived long enough to witness the Stuart Restoration, marks him out as a Cavalier poet in Welsh-language literature. Iain Lom , a Tacksman from Clan MacDonald of Keppoch , composed a long eyewitness account of the 1645 Battle of Inverlochy in the war poem Là Inbhir ...