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Events[edit]
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Works published[edit]
- Nicholas Breton:
- John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes verse and music (see also Second Booke 1600, Third and Last Booke 1603)[1]
- Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles (expanded in 1598; reprinted in The Barrons Wars 1603)[1]
- Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes[1]
- Henry Lok, Ecclesiastes, Otherwise Called the Preacher[1]
- Gervase Markham, translated from a lost original work by Genevieve Petau de Maulette, Devoreux[1]
- Thomas Middleton, The Wisodome of Solomon Paraphrased[1]
- Thomas Morley, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Foure Voyces, verse and music (see also Canzonets 1593)[1]
- Robert Parry, Sinetes Passion Uppon his Fortunes[1]
- Robert Tofte, Laura: The Toyes of a Traveller; or, The Feast of Fancie, contains a statement, likely untrue, that more than 30 of the poems in the book are not by Tofte[1]
- Nicholas Yonge, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music (see also Musica Transalpina 1588
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 24 – Vincent Voiture (died 1648), French poet and writer
- May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (died 1654), French writer and poet writing verses in both French and Latin
- December 23 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (died 1639), German
- Also:
- Johan van Heemskerk (died 1656), Dutch poet
- Christopher Harvey (died 1662), English[1]
- Claude de Malleville (died 1634), French
- Rachel Speght (death year not known), English polemicist and poet
- Wang Wei (died 1647), Chinese prostitute and poet
Deaths[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 6 – William Hunnis (birth year not known), English
- June 9 – Joseph of Anchieta (born 1534), Spanish Jesuit missionary, poet and playwright[2]
- Also:
- Fernando de Herrera (born c. 1534), Spanish
- George Turberville, also spelled "Turbervile", death year uncertain (born c. 1544), English poet and translator
See also[edit]
- 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