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Works published
Denmark
- Thomas Kingo, Aandelige Siunge-Koor ("Spiritual Choirs"), hymns, some of which are still sung
Other
- Alaol, Padmavati, Bangladesh
- Martin Opitz, Das Buch der Deutschen Poeterey ("A Book of German Poetics"), Germany
Births and deaths
Danish poets
- Anders Arrebo (1587–1637)
- 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)
- Urban Hiarne (1641–1724)
- Lars Wivallius (1605–1669)
- Lars Johansson (1638–1674)
- Gunno Eurelius Dahlstierna (1661–1709)
- Samuel Triewald (1688–1743)
- Jacob Frese (1691–1729)
- Johan Runius (1679–1713)
Italian, Latin-language poets
- Gerolamo Aleandro (1574–1629), Italian, Latin-language poet
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
- 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
- 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)
Decades and years
Notes
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Abdul Karim (2000). The Rohingyas: A Short Account of Their History and Culture. Arakan Historical Society. ISBN 9789843109422.
- 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.
- ^ 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, ISBN 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008