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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
Poetry portal; 17th century in literature; Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War (1641–1651) Elizabethan literature (1557–1603) Poetry; Restoration literature (1660–1689)
B. Thomas Bancroft (poet) Jane Barker; William Barksted; Richard Barnfield; Robert Baron (poet) William Basse; Theodore Bathurst; Edward Baynard (physician)
John Milton (1608–1674), most famous for his epic poem "Paradise Lost" (1667), was an English poet with religious beliefs emphasizing central Puritanical views.While the work acted as an expression of his despair over the failure of the Puritan Revolution against the English Catholic Church, it also indicated his optimism in human potential.
Henry Reynolds (1564–1632) was an English schoolmaster poet and literary critic of the seventeenth century. [1]Born in Suffolk, he is known for two works: Aminta Englisht of 1628, a translation from Tasso, and Mythomystes, a 1632 critical work on poetry considered to be most influenced by the Neoplatonism of the early Italian Renaissance.
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