17th century in poetry explained

Works published

Denmark

• Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Choirs"), hymns, some of which are still sung^[1]

Other

• Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh^[2]
• Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen Poeterey ("A Book of German Poetics"), Germany^[1]

Births and deaths

Danish poets

• Anders Arrebo (1587 - 1637)^[1]
• Anders Bording (1619 - 1677)
• Thomas Kingo (1634 - 1703)
• Ludvig Holberg (1684 - 1754), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright

German poets

• Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680 - 1747)
• Paul Gerhart (1607 - 1676)
• Andreas Gryphius (1616 - 1664)
• Joachim Neander (1650 - 1680)
• Martin Opitz (1597 - 1639)

Norwegian poets

• Petter Dass (1647 - 1707)
• Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1643 - 1716)
• Ludvig Holberg (1684 - 1754), Danish/Norwegian poet and playwright

Swedish poets

• Georg Stiernhielm (1598 - 1672)
• Samuel Columbus (1642 - 1679)^[1]
• Urban Hiarne (1641 - 1724)^[1]
• Lars Wivallius (1605 - 1669)^[1]
• Lars Johansson (1638 - 1674)
• Gunno Eurelius Dahlstierna (1661 - 1709)
• Samuel Triewald (1688 - 1743)^[1]
• Jacob Frese (1691 - 1729)^[1]
• Johan Runius (1679 - 1713)^[1]

Italian, Latin-language poets

• Gerolamo Aleandro (1574 - 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet^[3]

Japanese poets

• Kada no Azumamaro 荷田春満 (1669 - 1736), early Edo period poet, philologist and teacher as well as poetry tutor to one of the sons of Emperor Reigen; together with Keichū, co-founder of the kokugaku ("national studies") intellectual movement
• Kamo no Mabuchi 賀茂真淵 (1697 - 1769), Edo period poet and philologist
• Matsuo Bashō 松尾 芭蕉 (1644 - 1694), the most famous Edo period poet, recognized for his works in the collaborative haikai no renga form; now more recognized as a master of haiku
• Naito Joso (1662 - 1704), Genroku period haiku poet, a principal disciple of Bashō
• Nishiyama Sōin 西山宗因, born Nishiyama Toyoichi 西山豊一 (1605 - 1682), early Tokugawa period haikai-no-renga (comical renga) poet who founded the Danrin ("talkative forest") school of haikai poetry
• Nozawa Bonchō 野沢 凡兆 (c. 1640  - 1714), haikai poet
• Sonome 斯波 園女 (1664 - 1726), woman poet, friend and noted correspondent of Matsuo Bashō
• Takarai Kikaku 宝井其角, also known as "Enomoto Kikaku" (1661 - 1707), haiku poet and disciple of Matsuo Bashō

Persian-language poets

• Abul Ma'āni Abdul Qader Bedil also known as "Abdol-Qader Bidel Dehlavi" (1642 - 1720)
• Zeb-un-Nissa Makhfi (1637 - 1702)
• Sheikh Bahaii, Scientist, architect, philosopher, and poet (1546-1620)

South Asia

• Akho (1591 - 1659), poet, Vedantist and radical^[4]
• Rupa Bhavani (1621 - 1721), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
• Arnos Paathiri, also known as "Johann Ernst Hanxleden" (1681 - 1732), a German Jesuit priest, missionary in India and a Malayalam/Sanskrit poet, grammarian, lexicographer, and philologist
• Premanand (poet) (1640 - 1700) nonreligious Indian poet who wrote originally in Hindi, but when reprimanded by his guru, switched to Gujarati, which he vowed to develop into a language of fine literary expression^[4]
• Wali Muhammad Wali, Wali Deccani (1667 - 1707), Urdu-language poet
• Mirza Mazhar Jan-e-Janaan (1699 - 1781), Urdu-language poet

See also

• 17th century in literature
• Cavalier poets in England, who supported the monarch against the puritans in the English Civil War (1641 - 1651)
• Elizabethan literature (1557 - 1603)
• Poetry
• Restoration literature (1660 - 1689)

Notes and References

1. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
2. Book: The Rohingyas: A Short Account of Their History and Culture. Abdul Karim. Abdul Karim (historian). Arakan Historical Society. 2000. 9789843109422.
3. Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
4. Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,, retrieved December 10, 2008