1618 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1618 in poetry
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Works published
- George Chapman, translator, The Georgicks of Hesiod, from the Greek of Hesiod's Works and Days[1]
- Sir John Harington, The Most Elegant and Witty Epigrams of Sir John Harrington (see also Epigrams Both Pleasant and Serious 1615)[1]
- John Taylor, The Pennylesse Pilgrimage
Other
- Jacob Cats, Emblemata or Minnebeelden with Maegdenplicht, Netherlands
- Etienne de Pleure, Sacra Aeneis, cento[2]
- Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Rimas, lyrics, including translations of Horace, Martial and Ausonius, with a controversial preface which attracts much attention because of its strong opposition to the culteranismo of Luis de Góngora, Spain
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 19 – Thomas Bastard (born 1566), English poet and clergyman
- July – John Davies of Hereford (born 1565), Anglo-Welsh poet
- August 23 – Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero (born 1585), Dutch poet and playwright
- September 28 – Josuah Sylvester (born 1563), English poet
- October 29 – Sir Walter Ralegh (born c. 1554), English adventurer and author, executed
- December 6 – Jacques Davy Duperron (born 1556), French cardinal, politician and poet
- Also:
- Richard Stanihurst, also spelled "Stanyhurst" (born 1547), Irish translator, poet, historian and alchemist
- Probable year – Bento Teixeira (born c. 1561), Portuguese poet
Notes
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ von Wilpert, Gero (1959). Sachwörterbuch der Literatur. A. Kröner. p. 81.
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