1594 in poetry

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Works published

England

• 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:
  • Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets ^[1]
  • Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596) ^[1]
  • Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall ^[1]
• 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 portal

• 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

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
2. Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. 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
5. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN   0-8160-4197-0