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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.
e. 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 literature of this period is often equated with the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Poetry was used for all purposes. A great deal of 17th- and 18th-century poetry was "occasional", written to celebrate a particular event (a marriage, birth, military victory) or to solemnize a tragic occurrence (a death, military defeat), and this kind of poetry was frequent with gentlemen in the service of a noble or the king. Poetry was the ...
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".