1655 in poetry
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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:...

).

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. By John Cotgrave, Gent (full title, but punctuation and spelling here may be different from the actual title page), contains verse drama, quotations, maxims, etc. London: Printed for Humphrey Moseley
  • Sir John Denham
    John Denham (poet)
    Sir John Denham was an English poet and courtier. He served as Surveyor of the King's Works and is buried in Westminster Abbey....

    , Coopers Hill, first authorized edition (see also Coopers Hill 1642
    1642 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill, the first example in English of a poem devoted to local description, in this case the Thames scenery around the author's home at Egham in Surrey; the poem was...

    )
  • Sir Richard Fanshawe, translator, The Lusiad; or, Portugals Historicall Poem, translated from the Portuguese
    Portuguese 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...

     of Luis de Camoens
  • Henry Lawes
    Henry Lawes
    Henry Lawes was an English musician and composer.He was born at Dinton in Wiltshire, and received his musical education from John Cooper, better known under his Italian pseudonym Giovanni Coperario, a famous composer of the day...

    , The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues, for One, Two, and Three Voyces, verse and music (see also Ayres and Dialogues 1653
    1653 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Margaret Cavendish, Lady Newcastle, Poems, and Fancies, prose and poetry* An Collins, Divine Songs and Meditacions...

    , 1658
    1658 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Nicholas Billingsley, Kosmobrephia; or, The Infancy of the World, mostly poetry...

    )
  • Andrew Marvell
    Andrew Marvell
    Andrew Marvell was an English metaphysical poet, Parliamentarian, and the son of a Church of England clergyman . As a metaphysical poet, he is associated with John Donne and George Herbert...

    , The First Anniversary of the Government Under His Highness the Lord Protector, published anonymously, on Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

  • John Milton
    John Milton
    John Milton was an English poet, polemicist, a scholarly man of letters, and a civil servant for the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell...

    , On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
    On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
    On the Late Massacre in Piedmont is a sonnet by the English poet John Milton inspired by the massacre of Waldensians in Piedmont by the Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy in April 1655.-The sonnet:Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones...

  • John Phillips
    John Phillips (author)
    John Phillips was an English author, the brother of Edward Phillips, and a nephew of John Milton.Anne Phillips, mother of John and Edward, was the sister of John Milton, the poet. In 1652, John Phillips published a Latin reply to the anonymous attack on Milton entitled Pro Rege et populo anglicano...

    , A Saytr Against Hypocrites, published anonymously; an attack on Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

     and Puritanism
  • Henry Vaughan
    Henry Vaughan
    Henry Vaughan was a Welsh physician and metaphysical poet.Vaughan and his twin brother the hermetic philosopher and alchemist Thomas Vaughan, were the sons of Thomas Vaughan and his wife Denise of 'Trenewydd', Newton, in Brecknockshire, Wales...

    , Silex Scintillans: Sacred poems and private ejaculations, second edition (see also Silex Scintillans 1650
    1650 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia...

    )
  • Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller
    Edmund Waller, FRS was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.- Early life :...

    , A Panegyrick to my Lord Protector, on Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....

  • George Wither
    George Wither
    George 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...

    , The Protector, on Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell
    Oliver Cromwell was an English military and political leader who overthrew the English monarchy and temporarily turned England into a republican Commonwealth, and served as Lord Protector of England, Scotland, and Ireland....


Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  • Jean-François Regnard
    Jean-François Regnard
    Jean-François Regnard , "the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century", was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681....

     (died 1709
    1709 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Sir Richard Blackmore, Instructions to Vander Bank; published anonymously, sequel to Advice to the Poets...

    ), French
    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:...

  • Nalan Xingde
    Nalan Xingde
    Nalan Xingde was a Chinese poet active during the Qing Dynasty, famous for his ci poetry. He was actually born Nalan Chengde , but had to change his name when the Kangxi Emperor named Yinreng, whose birth name also had the character cheng , the crown prince...

     (died 1685
    1685 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:...

    ), Qing Dynasty
    Qing Dynasty
    The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty of China, ruling from 1644 to 1912 with a brief, abortive restoration in 1917. It was preceded by the Ming Dynasty and followed by the Republic of China....

     poet most famous for his ci poetry

Deaths

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  • Robert Aylett
    Robert Aylett
    Robert Aylett was an English lawyer and religious poet.-Life:He was born in Rivenhall, Essex and was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1605, M.A. in 1608, and LL.D in 1614. Living at Feering, he acted for the archdeacon of Colchester and as justice of the peace...

     (born 1583
    1583 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:*Sir Philip Sidney is knighted*William Shakespeare's first daughter Susanna is born-France:...

    ), English
    English poetry
    The 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...

     lawyer and religious poet
  • Cyrano de Bergerac
    Cyrano de Bergerac
    Hercule-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...

     (born 1619
    1619 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* Ben Jonson becomes poet laureate of England, succeeding Samuel Daniel, who died this year * Martin Opitz becomes the leader of the school of young poets in Heidelberg-Works published:*...

    ), French
    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:...

     soldier and poet
  • Daniel Heinsius
    Daniel Heinsius
    Daniel Heinsius was one of the most famous scholars of the Dutch Renaissance.-His youth and student years:...

     (born 1580
    1580 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the...

    ), scholar who wrote Latin and Dutch poetry
  • Francesco Pona
    Francesco Pona
    Francesco Pona was an Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer from Verona, whose works ranged from scientific treatises and history to poetry and plays.-Works:...

     (born 1595
    1595 in poetry
    Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588* Barnabe Barnes,...

    ), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist
    Marinism
    Marinism is the name now given to an ornate, witty style of poetry and verse drama written in imitation of Giambattista Marino , following in particular La Lira and L'Adone.-Features:The critic James V...

     poet and writer

See also

  • Poetry
    Poetry
    Poetry 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 poetry
    17th 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 literature
    17th century in literature
    See 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:...

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