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e. 1605–1615 – Miguel de Cervantes writes the two parts of Don Quixote. 1616: April – Death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes. 1630-1651: William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation, journals that are considered the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and their government. 1660–1669 – Samuel Pepys writes ...
George Wither. Samuel Woodford. Peter Woodhouse. Sir Francis Wortley, 1st Baronet. Henry Wotton. Lady Mary Wroth. Categories: 17th-century poets by nationality. 17th-century English writers.
John Donne ( / dʌn / DUN; 1571 or 1572 [ a] – 31 March 1631) was an English poet, scholar, soldier and secretary born into a recusant family, who later became a cleric in the Church of England. [ 2] Under Royal Patronage, he was made Dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London (1621–1631). [ 1] He is considered the preeminent representative of ...
Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). The first version, published in 1667, consists of ten books with over ten thousand lines of verse. A second edition followed in 1674, arranged into twelve books (in the manner of Virgil's Aeneid) with minor revisions throughout.
Rupa Bhavani ( 1621 – 1721 ), Indian, Kashmiri -language poet. Arnos Paathiri, also known as "Johann Ernst Hanxleden" ( 1681 – 1732 ), a German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam / Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist. Premanand (poet) ( 1640 – 1700) nonreligious Indian poet who wrote originally in ...
Robert Herrick (poet) Robert Herrick (baptised 24 August 1591 – buried 15 October 1674) [ 1] was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633) [ 1] was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional lyricists." [ 2] He was born in Wales into an artistic and wealthy family and largely raised ...
Cavalier poet. The cavalier poets was a school of English poets of the 17th century, that came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–1651). Charles, a connoisseur of the fine arts, supported poets who created the art he craved. These poets in turn grouped themselves with the King and his service ...