1619 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Events
- Ben JonsonBen JonsonBenjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...
becomes poet laureatePoet Laureate of the United KingdomThe Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, also referred to as the Poet Laureate, is the Poet Laureate appointed by the monarch of the United Kingdom on the advice of the Prime Minister...
of EnglandEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
, succeeding Samuel DanielSamuel DanielSamuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...
, who died this year (on Johnson's death in 16371637 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Sir William Davenant becomes poet laureate of England on the death of Ben Jonson -Works published:* Sir William Alexander, Recreations with the Muses, contains Four Monarchicke Tragedies,...
he was succeeded by Sir William DavenantWilliam DavenantSir William Davenant , also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil...
) - Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in HeidelbergHeidelberg-Early history:Between 600,000 and 200,000 years ago, "Heidelberg Man" died at nearby Mauer. His jaw bone was discovered in 1907; with scientific dating, his remains were determined to be the earliest evidence of human life in Europe. In the 5th century BC, a Celtic fortress of refuge and place of...
Works published
- Richard BraithwaiteRichard BraithwaiteRichard Braithwaite or Brathwait was an English poet.He was born near Kendal, and educated at Oxford. He is believed to have served with the Royalist army in the Civil War...
, writing under the pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
"Musophilus", A New Spring Shadowed in Sundry Pithie Poems - Sir John DaviesJohn Davies (poet)Sir John Davies was an English poet and lawyer, who became attorney general in Ireland and formulated many of the legal principles that underpinned the British Empire.-Early life:...
, Nosce Teipsum (see also Nosce Teipsum 15991599 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Samuel Daniel became poet laureate in England this year -Works published:...
, 16221622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
) - Michael DraytonMichael DraytonMichael Drayton was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.-Early life:He was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothing is known about his early life, beyond the fact that in 1580 he was in the service of Thomas Goodere of Collingham,...
, Idea - Henry Hutton, Follie's Anatomie; or, Satyres and Satiricall Epigrams
- George WitherGeorge WitherGeorge Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V...
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- March 6 – Cyrano de BergeracCyrano de BergeracHercule-Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac was a French dramatist and duelist. He is now best remembered for the works of fiction which have been woven, often very loosely, around his life story, most notably the 1897 play by Edmond Rostand...
(died 16551655 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* John Cotgrave, The English Treasury of Wit and Language: collected out of the most, and best of our English drammatick poems; methodically digested into common places for generall use...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
soldier and poet - Moses BelmonteMoses BelmonteMoses Belmonte was a poet and translator, the eighth child of Jacob Belmonte. He was a pupil of Saul Morteira, whose sermons he edited together with Benjamin Diaz. His poem "Argumenta Contra os Noserim" has been reprinted by De Castro in his Keur van Grafsteenen. Belmonte translated the Song of...
(died 16471647 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Richard Corbet, Certain Elegant Poems, edited by John Donne the younger...
), poet and translator - Anders BordingAnders BordingAnders Christensen Bording was a Danish poet and journalist. He is notable for his epigrams, ballads, occasional poems and epistles, as well as for publishing the first Danish newspaper, the monthly Den Danske Mercurius, written in verse entirely by him.-External links:* *...
(died 16771677 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* In Denmark, Anders Bording ceases publication of Den Danske Meercurius , a monthly newspaper in rhyme, using alexandrine verse, single-handedly published by the author; founded in 1666-Works...
), Danish poet and journalist - Bedřich BridelBedrich BridelBedřich Bridel, or Fridrich Bridelius was a Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary.- Biography :He studied at the Jesuit gymnasium in Prague. In 1637 he entered the Jesuit order, he was ordained as a priest around 1650. From 1656 to 1660 he led the printing office of the Jesuits in the Prague...
(died 16801680 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Wentworth Dillon, translator, Horace's Art of Poetry, translation from the Latin of Horace's Ars poetica, including an essay by Edmund Waller* John Dryden and others, translators, Ovid's...
), Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary - William Chamberlayne (died 17031703 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Lady Mary Chudleigh, Poems upon Several Occasions* William Congreve, A Hymn to Harmony* Daniel Defoe:...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and playwright - Morgan LlwydMorgan LlwydMorgan Llwyd , was a Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer.- Biography :...
(died 16591659 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Andrew Marvell is elected to Parliament as member for Hull....
), Welsh Puritan preacher, poet and prose writer - Shalom ShabaziShalom ShabaziRabbi Shalom ben Yosef Shabbazi, also Abba Shalem Shabbezi or Salim Elshibzi was one of the greatest Jewish poets who lived in 17th century Yemen and now considered the 'Poet of Yemen'. Shabbazi was born in 1619 at Jewish Sharab, close to Ta'izz, and lived most of his life in Ta'izz from which he...
(died 17201720 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Jane Brereton, An Expostulatory Epistle to Sir Richard Steele upon the Death of Mr...
), Jewish poet of Yemen
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- October 14 – Samuel DanielSamuel DanielSamuel Daniel was an English poet and historian.-Early life:Daniel was born near Taunton in Somerset, the son of a music-master. He was the brother of lutenist and composer John Danyel. Their sister Rosa was Edmund Spenser's model for Rosalind in his The Shepherd's Calendar; she eventually married...
(born 15621562 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Brice, Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
Poet Laureate and historian - Frei Agostinho da Cruz (born 15401540 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain* Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M...
), brother of Diogo Bernardes, PortuguesePortuguese poetry-History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into... - Shlomo Ephraim LuntschitzShlomo Ephraim LuntschitzShlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz was a rabbi, poet and Torah commentator, best known for his Torah commentary Keli Yakar.-Biography:...
(born 15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator - Ginés Pérez de HitaGines Perez de HitaGinés Pérez de Hita was a Spanish novelist and poet, born at Mula about the middle of the 16th century.It is likely that he joined the campaign against the Muslim presence in Spain in 1560.-Guerras civiles de Granada:...
probable death in 1619 (born 15441544 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Vittoria Colonna, Canzoniere , lyric poems—mostly sonnets, but also canzoni and capitoli in terza rima, keeping to classical Petrarchan style; the first section refers to her late...
), Spanish novelist and poet
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 17th century in poetry17th century in poetry-Denmark:* Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor , hymns, some of which are still sung-Other:* Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen Poeterey , Germany-Danish poets:* Anders Arrebo...
- 17th century in literature17th century in literatureSee also: 17th century in poetry, 16th century in literature*Early Modern literature*other events of the 17th century*18th century in literature, 1700 in literature,and list of years in literature.-Events and trends:...