Category

Baroque writers

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Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

Mexican writer, philosopher, playwright and poet

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen

Joost van den Vondel

Dutch poet and writer (1587-1679)

Agrippa d'Aubigné

French military officer, historian, writer and poet (1552-1630)

Andreas Gryphius

German poet and dramatist (1616–1664)

Théophile de Viau

French poet (1590-1696)

António Vieira

Portuguese diplomat and missionary (1608-1697)

metaphysical poets

group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterised by the inventive use of conceits and an emphasis on the spoken rather than lyrical quality of their verse

Richard Crashaw

English poet and cleric (c.1613 – 1649)

Symeon of Polotsk

Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Polish writer (1595-1640)

Jan Andrzej Morsztyn

Polish poet (1621–1693)

Anthony Ulrich, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruling Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1633-1714)

Robert Southwell

English Jesuit and poet (1561–1595)

Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau

Silesian poet, imperial counselor, council members of Breslau (1618-1679)

Jan Chryzostom Pasek

François Tristan l'Hermite

French dramatist and playwright (1601-1655)

Francisco Manuel de Melo

Portuguese writer, politician and military officer (1608-1666)

Daniel Casper von Lohenstein

German writer, diplomat and lawyer (1635-1683)

François Béroalde de Verville

Gregório de Matos

Brazilian poet and lawyer

Wacław Potocki

Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora

Mexican humanist and writer (1645-1700)

Georg Philipp Harsdorffer

German poet (1607-1658)

Heinrich Albert

German composer and poet

Elżbieta Drużbacka

Polish writer (1695-1765)

Alonso Fernández de Avellaneda

Polish historian

Slovak music educator, composer, educator and writer

Daniel Naborowski

thumb|right|300px|Anonymous, ca 1660, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam – Initiation of a Bentvueghel in Rome, where the new member receives his nickname or "Bent" thumb|Portraits of Eleven Bentvueghels (approx. 1623). Stemming from the collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. thumb|De bendvogels (Bentvueghels) (1676) by Cornelis de Bruijn

Sibylle Ursula of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Stanisław Herakliusz Lubomirski

Polish noble (1642-1702)

Samuel Twardowski

Polish poet and writer

Sigmund von Birken

German poet (1626-1681)

António José da Silva

Brazilian dramatist

Quirinus Kuhlmann

German poet and mystic (1651-1689)

Francisco Rodrigues Lobo

Portuguese writer 1580 - 1622

István Gyöngyösi

Hungarian writer (1629–1704)

Justus Georg Schottel

German grammarian

Violante do Ceo

Portuguese writer

Giovanni Francesco Loredano

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic

thumb|Lasse Lucidor as imagined in 1849. thumb|right|The front page of "Helicons blomster", the posthumous collection of poems by the poet Lucidor, published in 1688. thumb|right|Front page of funeral poem for the young boy Sven Edenius.

Bedřich Bridel

Czech baroque writer, poet, and missionary

Andrzej Maksymilian Fredro

Polish noble (c. 1620–1679)

Cristoforo Ivanovich

Venetian historian and librettist of Serb origin

Daniel Sinapius-Horčička

Slovak writer and evangelist

Nicolas de Montreux

Giacomo Badoaro

Venetian nobleman and poet

Kata Szidónia Petrőczy

Hungarian writer

Jean de La Ceppède

Margherita Costa

Italian singer, performer and writer

Udriște Năsturel

Wallachian scholar, poet, and statesman

Maiolino Bisaccioni