Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
Works published
- Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume[1]
- Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes[1]
- Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife[1]
- Henry Constable, Spirituall sonnettes, to the honour of God: and hys saintes, written but unpublished at this time[2]
- Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs[1]
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love[1]
- Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532[1]
- Thomas Lodge, Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights[1]
- Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)[1]
- Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)[1]
- George Peele, The Honour of the Garter[1]
- William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)[1]
- Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 3 – George Herbert (died 1633), Welsh poet, orator and priest
- June 24 – Abraham von Franckenberg (died 1652), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
- Also:
- Barten Holyday (died 1661), English clergyman, author and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 12 – Amadis Jamyn (born 1538), French poet
- August 19 – Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
- May 30 – Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
- Also:
- Jeong Cheol, who wrote under the pen names "Gyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
- Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
- Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
- Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
- Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- English Madrigal School
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
- University Wits
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
- ^ British Library, Harleian Collection MS 7553.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications