1617 in poetry
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Events
- James I of England creates Poet Laureate position for Ben Jonson
Works published
Great Britain
- John Davies, published anonymously, Wits Bedlam, epigrams[1]
- Leonard Digges, The Rape of Proserpine, translated from the Latin of Claudius Claudianus' De raptu Proserpinae[1]
- William Drummond, published anonymously, Forth Feasting, written on the occasion of James I's visit to Scotland[1]
Other
- Martin Opitz Aristarchus, German poet and writer in Latin, in this book championing the purity of the German language[2]
- Antoine Girard de Saint-Amant, A la solitude, ("Solitude"), an ode (untranslated text in French) France
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 4 â Sir George Wharton, 1st Baronet (died 1681), English Cavalier soldier and astrologer, also known as a poet
- September 25 (bapt.) â Henry Birkhead (died 1696), English academic, lawyer, Latin poet and founder of the Oxford Chair of Poetry
- December 9 â Richard Lovelace (died 1657), English Cavalier poet
- Peter Folger (died 1690), English-born poet, Nantucket settler, and maternal grandfather of Benjamin Franklin
- Pierre Petit (died 1687), French scholar, physician, poet and Latin writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 8 â Tarquinia Molza (born 1542), Italian singer and poet
- Giovanni Botero (born 1544), Italian political theorist, priest, poet, and diplomat
- Keshavdas (born 1555), Sanskrit scholar and Hindi poet
- Riccardo Luisini (born 1535), Italian, Latin-language poet[3]
- Eochaidh à hÃoghusa (born 1567), Irish
- François du Souhait (born between 1570 and 1580), French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
