17th century in poetry

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## Works published

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### Denmark

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

### Other

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

## Births and deaths

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### Danish poets

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Anders Arrebo, 1886

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

### German poets

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

### Norwegian poets

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

### Swedish poets

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* 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

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

### Japanese poets

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* 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

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* 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

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* 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

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* Poetry portal

* 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)

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## Notes

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1. ^ a b c d e f g h i 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. ^ Abdul Karim (2000). The Rohingyas: A Short Account of Their History and Culture. Arakan Historical Society. ISBN 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. ^ a b 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