the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May–June – English Cavalier poet Richard Lovelace is incarcerated in the Gatehouse...

"To Althea, from Prison" is a poem written by Richard Lovelace in 1642. The poem is one of Lovelace's best-known works, and its final stanza's first line...

lifetime. Cavalier poetry began to be recognized as its own genre with the beginning of the English Civil War in 1642 when men began to write in defense of the...

1646 in poetry 1645 in poetry 1644 in poetry Birth of Matsuo Bashō the haiku poet 1643 in poetry 1642 in poetry 1641 in poetry 1640 in poetry - Biag ni...

Edward Taylor (c.1642 – June 29, 1729) was a colonial American poet, pastor and physician of English origin. His work remained unpublished for some 200...

of 1642. May – The 35-year-old John Milton marries the teenage Mary Powell. A few weeks later she leaves him in London and returns to her family in Oxfordshire...

encounter poetry in almost every classical work, whether from Persian literature, science, or metaphysics. In short, the ability to write in verse form...

excluding his or her long poems (mathnawī). The vast majority of Diwan poetry was lyric in nature: either ghazals or gazels (which make up the greatest part...

Ihara Saikaku (井原 西鶴, 1642 – September 9, 1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi). Born as...

Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright Georg Stiernhielm (1598–1672) Samuel Columbus (1642–1679) Urban Hiarne (1641–1724) Lars Wivallius (1605–1669) Lars Johansson...

fictional accounts of an imagining of a Great Southern Land. In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman landed in Tasmania and after examining notches cut at considerable...

literature's Golden Age was in the 12th century, when a rich and complex body of lyrical poetry was produced by troubadours writing in Old Occitan, which still...

Cambridge in the 1620s and continued through the English Civil War, which started in 1642 and continued until 1651. By the time of his death in 1674, Milton...

in drama may last until 1700, while in poetry it may last only until 1666 (see 1666 in poetry) and the annus mirabilis; and in prose it might end in 1688...

the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642). In midlife, Jonson said his paternal grandfather, who "served King Henry...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Francis Quarles, Solomon's Recantation...

Renaissance theatre or Elizabethan theatre was the theatre of England from 1558 to 1642. Its most prominent playwrights were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). John Cleveland, The Character...

published (posthumously) by John Benson in London, the first collection of Shakespeare's non-dramatic poetry, although incomplete and mangled and with...

Henry Glapthorne, Poems Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 5 (bapt.) – Charles Sedley (died 1701), English wit, dramatist...

primarily wrote in the literary genre of lyric poetry or ghazals, which is the ideal style for expressing the ecstasy of divine inspiration in the mystical...

themselves felt on English poetry that description, as Boileau conceived it, was cultivated as a distinct art. The Coopers Hill (1642) by Sir John Denham may...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). May - English poet John Milton...

nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). August 27 – Spanish playwright and poet Lope de Vega dies aged 72 of scarlet fever in Madrid...

nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Baron, Pocula Castalia Anne Bradstreet, The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). English poet John Milton loses...

1576–1578 Mohammad Khodabanda 1578–1587 Abbas I 1587–1629 Safi 1629–1642 Abbas II 1642–1666 Suleiman I 1666–1694 Soltan Hoseyn 1694–1722 Tahmasp II 1722–1732...

Topographical poetry or loco-descriptive poetry is a genre of poetry that describes, and often praises, a landscape or place. John Denham's 1642 poem "Cooper's...

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc...

lyric poetry and history. From 1628 to 1642 he wrote his masterpiece, the Nederduytsche Historiën ("History of the Netherlands"). Hooft was a purist in style...