17th century in poetry

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 KeichÅ«, 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

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