1590 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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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
  • Shen Yixiu (died 1635), Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye Xiaowan[3]
  • Faqi Tayran, also spelled "Feqiyê Teyran", pen name of Mir Mihemed (died 1660), Kurdish
  • Hu Wenru (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
  • Xu Yuan (poet) (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

1. 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
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. 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