1594 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard[1]
- Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta[1]
- George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek[1]
- Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592)[1]
- Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592)[1]
- Michael Drayton:
- Robert Greene:
- Orlando Furioso, published anonymously[1]
- See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
- Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris[2]
- Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis[1]
- Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande[1]
- Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose[1]
- Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music[1]
- John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms[2]
- William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, as Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640[1]
- Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
- Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets[2]
Other
- Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy[3]
- Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism[4]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch
- September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French
- Also:
- John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English
- James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet
- Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- c. February 7 – Barnabe Googe (born 1540), English pastoral poet and translator
- May 30 – Bálint Balassi (born 1554), Hungarian lyric poet[5]
- August 15 (bur.) – Thomas Kyd (born 1558), English dramatist and poet
- November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla (born 1533), Spanish
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 l m n Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Moss, Ann, "Theories of Poetry: Latin writers", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 105, Cambridge University Press, 1999,ISBN 0-521-30008-8, ISBN 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0