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1609 in poetry

1609 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1609 in poetry

— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"

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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works in English

Title page of Robert Armin's The History of the two Maids of More-Clacke. The woodcut shows Armin onstage.

Works published in other languages

Births

Deaths

Notes

  1. [1]
    Opie, Iona; Peter (1997). The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 306. ISBN 0-19-860088-7.
  2. [2]
    Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  3. [3]
    Hadfield, Andrew, The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, "Chronology", Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-64199-3, p xx, retrieved via Google Books, September 24, 2009
  4. [4]
    Comte, Deborah, "Belmonte Bermúdez, Luis de", article, p 183, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 6, 2011
  5. [5]
    Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
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