Northern Italy Myrddin Wyllt (later 6th century?), semi- (or wholly) legendary Welsh poet and prophet living in Scotland Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599),...

BCE) Pindar (c. 522/518 in Cynoscephalae – 443 BCE in Argos) Bacchylides (b. c. 507 BCE) Dates unknown: Ibycus, flourished in Rhegium Aesop Theognis of...

Cædmon likely flourishes from approximately 657 to 680 in Northumbria Laidcenn mac Buith Bannaig, Irish (d. 661) Cædmon's Hymn, Old English Dream of the...

Claudius Namatianus flourishes, writing in Latin. Sidonius Apollinaris (430–489), in Lugdunum, Gaul, writing in Latin. Magnus Felix Ennodius (474 – July...

Phrynichus (tragic poet) (6th c. BC - post 475 BC) Aeschylus (525 - 456 BC) Pindar (ca. 518 - ca. 438 BC) Sophocles (495 - 405 BC) Euripides (480 - 406...

born near or before the beginning of the century Hesiod, born near or before the beginning of the century in Boeotia Callinus (c. 740 - c. 665 BC) Tyrtaeus...

valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western...

Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century.[citation needed] Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended to a wide...

(choral lyric, 6th century BC) Bacchylides of Ceos (choral lyric, 5th century BC) Pindar of Thebes (choral lyric, 5th century BC) In most Greek sources...

flourished in the 6th century BC, were those who arranged series of sententious maxims in verse. These were collected in the 4th century, by Lobon of...