1590 in poetry
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Events[]
- With the encouragement of Sir Walter Ralegh, Edmund Spenser joins him on a trip to London, where Ralegh presented the celebrated poet to Queen Elizabeth I.[1]
Works[]
- George Peele, Polyhymnia[2]
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3,[2] in honour of Queen Elizabeth I
- Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, Books 1–3 (see also expanded editions of 1593, 1598, 1621, etc.)[2]
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa (died 1649), Portuguese historian and poet
- June 24 – Samuel Ampzing (died 1632), Dutch clergyman and poet
- September 12 – María de Zayas (died 1661), Spanish poet and playwright
- Also:
- Baltasar del Alcazar born (died 1606), Spanish
- William Browne (died 1645), English
- (died 1635), Chinese poet and mother of female poets , and [3]
- Faqi Tayran, also spelled "Feqiyê Teyran", pen name of Mir Mihemed (died 1660), Kurdish
- (flourished about this year), Chinese official courtesan known for her poetry painting and playing the qin[3]
- Théophile de Viau (died 1626), French poet and playwright
- (flourished about this year), Chinese woman poet nicknamed "Xie reincarnate" in reference to Xie Daoyun[3]
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March – Petru Cercel (born unknown), Wallachian prince and poet
- August 28 – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (born 1544), French writer and poet
- November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (born 1547), German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician and astronomer
- September 20 – Robert Garnier (born 1544), French poet and playwright
- Also:
- George Puttenham (born 1529), English writer and critic
- Étienne Tabourot (born 1549), French
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[]
- ^ Web page titled "Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography" Archived 2012-01-02 at the Wayback Machine at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English, retrieved September 24, 2009
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ a b c Kang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism, Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3231-0, ISBN 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
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