1631 in poetry
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A few months before his death, John Donne commissioned this portrait of himself as he expected to appear when he rose from the grave at the Apocalypse.[1] He hung the portrait on his wall as a reminder of the transience of life. The next year, a memorial statue of Donne was erected at St. Paul's Cathedral, with the statue carved from this image.[2]
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works[]
France[]
- Georges de Scudéry Œuvres poétiques ("Poetic Works"),
- Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac:
- Aristippe ou De la cour
- Le Prince, eulogy on King Louis XIII of France
Great Britain[]
- Charles Aleyn, The Battailes of Crescey, and Poctiers[3]
- Richard Braithwait:
- The English Gentleman
- The English Gentlewoman
- William L'Isle, The Faire Aethiopian, published anonymously; verse translation of Heliodorus, Aethiopica)[3]
- David Lloyd, The Legend of Captain Jones, Part 1; published anonymously; attributed to Lloyd or, sometimes, to Martin Lluelyn (Part 2 in 1648)[3]
Other[]
- Francisco de Quevedo, La aguja de navegar cultos con la receta para hacer Soledades en un día, satire attacking poets who use or language, Spain, criticism
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 – Katharine Philips (died 1664), Welsh
- August 19 (Old style: August 9) – John Dryden (died 1700) influential English poet, literary critic, translator and playwright, who dominated the literary life of Restoration England to such a point that the period came to be known in literary circles as the Age of Dryden.
- October 18 – Michael Wigglesworth (died 1705), English Puritan minister and doctor, colonist in America called "the most popular of early New England poets"[4]
- date not known – John Phillips (died 1706), poet and satirist, brother of Edward Phillips and nephew of John Milton
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 4 – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (born 1562), Spanish poet, writer and chronicler; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
- February 7 – Gabriel Harvey (born c.1545), English poet and author
- March 31 – John Donne (born 1572), English poet, preacher
- December 23 – Michael Drayton (born 1563), English
See also[]
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
Notes[]
- ^ Lapham, Lewis. The End of the World. Thomas Dunne Books: New York, 1997. page 98.
- ^ Donne, John, The Complete English Poems, Introduction and notes by A. J. Smith, "Table of Dates", pp 24-25, Penguin Books, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Trent, William P. and Wells, Benjamin W., Colonial Prose and Poetry: The Beginnings of Americanism 1650-1710, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1903 edition, page 41
Categories:
- 17th-century poetry
- 1631