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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 ...
The late 17th, early 18th century (1689–1750) in English literature is known as the Augustan Age. Writers at this time "greatly admired their Roman counterparts, imitated their works and frequently drew parallels between" contemporary world and the age of the Roman emperor Augustus (27 AD – BC 14) [52] (see Augustan literature (ancient Rome)).
Thomas Ashe (legal writer) Robert Ashley (writer) John Ashmore (translator) George Ashwell (controversialist) Bartholomew Ashwood. Egeon Askew. William Aspinwall (minister) William Assheton. Mary Astell.
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. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen ...
The poet Abraham Cowley, in whose biography Samuel Johnson first named and described Metaphysical poetry. The term Metaphysical poets was coined by the critic Samuel Johnson to describe a loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits, and by a greater emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse.
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. The Roman symbol of Britannia (a female personification of Great Britain) was revived in 1572, and often thereafter, to mark the Elizabethan age as a ...
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [ 1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. As in most of the rest of Northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until ...
17th-century Indian literature (2 C) 17th-century inscriptions (3 P) 17th-century Irish literature (2 C, 5 P) 17th-century Italian literature (1 C, 3 P)