Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 16 -
Julije Balović completes transcription of
Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events" (
Serbian: Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi).
John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously[1]
John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics,
Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and
Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end [...]"[3]
Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations,[1] in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry[4]
Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology[1]
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 126, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 101, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 16 -
Julije Balović completes transcription of
Junije Palmotić's drama Danica to which he appends three poems of unknown authors, including "Blind man sings of love events" (
Serbian: Slijepac pjeva zgode koje ljubav nosi).
John Dennis, Poems in Burlesque, published anonymously[1]
John Dryden, Eleonora, an elegy in honor of the Countess of Abingdon, whom he'd never seen, written for a lucrative fee; one of Dryden's most easygoing critics,
Sir Walter Scott, called it "totally deficient of interest", and
Mark Van Doren described it as a "catalogue of female Christian virtues, virtues which Dryden was not much moved by. It suffers from a threadbare piety everywhere except at the end [...]"[3]
Thomas Fletcher, Poems on Several Occasions, and Translations,[1] in his preface, the author condemned rhyme in poetry[4]
Charles Gildon, editor, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions, anthology[1]
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 126, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")
^Mark Van Doren, John Dryden: A Study of His Poetry, p 101, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, second edition, 1946 ("First Midland Book edition 1960")