1595 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1592
1593
1594
1595
1596
1597
1598

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Works published[]

Saint Robert Southwell, S.J., executed this year; illustration from the frontispiece of Saint Peters Complaint, first published this year

Great Britain[]

  • Anonymous, The Fissher-Mans Tale, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588[1]
  • William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
  • Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets[1]
  • Richard Barnfield, Cynthia[1]
  • Nicholas Breton, Marie Magdalens Love; A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love[1]
  • Thomas Campion, Poemata
  • George Chapman, published anonymously, Ovids Banquet of Sence, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna[1]
  • Thomas Churchyard, A Musicall Consort of Heavenly Harmonie (Compounded Out of Manie Parts of Musicke) Called Churchyyards Charitie[1]
  • Samuel Daniel, The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Warres Betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also Poeticall Essayes 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and Civile Warres 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)[1]
  • Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus[2]
  • Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen, published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
  • Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires[1]
  • Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
  • Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices[2]
  • George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives Tale (play) printed[3]
  • Francis Sabie, The Fisher-mans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight
  • Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, English criticism (written between 1580–1583; published for the first time posthumously)[4][5]
  • Saint Robert Southwell:
    • Moeniae[1]
    • Saint Peters Complaint, with Other Poemes, published anonymously; three editions this year; it is possible there were several manuscripts in circulation before the first printed edition appeared (see also S. Peters Complaint 1616)[1]
  • Edmund Spenser:
    • Amoretti and Epithalamion[1]
    • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, includes "Astrophel: A pastorall elegie upon the death of Sidney", and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others[1]

Other[]

Births[]

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Deaths[]

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See also[]

Notes[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  2. ^ a b Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books.
  3. ^ Fowler, Alastair (1991). A History of English Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-674-39664-2.
  4. ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
  5. ^ Craig, D. H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." In Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney. Hamden: Archon Books.
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