French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1679
German writer of prose satires and publicist of the Enlightenment. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and he died at Dresden. In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe’s Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage.
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:487
German poet of Pietism
Subject gender: Female
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Size 8 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1151
German critic and dramatic poet. Müllner was a nephew of Gottfried August Burger, and was born at Langendorf near Weissenfels.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:488
Fran Krsto Frankopan was a Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician. He is remembered primarily for his involvement in the failed Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy. He was a Croatian marquess, a member of the Frankopan noble family and its last male descendant
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1654
Elizabeth Jane Weston was an English-Czech poet, known for her Neo-Latin poetry. She had the unusual distinction for a woman of the time of having her poetry published.
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:883
Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), “the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century”,[1] was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Artist: Delpech
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1680
Italian poet
Size 4 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:954
German poet, known especially for his ballads. Hölty was born in the Electorate of Hanover in the village of Mariensee where his father was pastor. In 1769, he went to study theology at the University of Göttingen.
Size 7 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1101
Christoph VII Fürer von Haimendorf auf Wolkersdorf (born July 11, 1663 in Haimendorf; † May 3, 1732 in Nuremberg), imperial councilor, councilor of the imperial city of Nuremberg, was a poet in the transitional period between the Baroque and Enlightenment. He translated, among other things, Works by Pierre Corneille and Torquato Tasso into German, was president of the Pegnesian Order of Flowers, a linguistic and literary society with a bucolic background, from 1709 under the pseudonym Lilidor I (the lily bearer, after the coat of arms of the Fürer von Haimendorf family).
Artist: Ulrich
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Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2602