1595 in poetry

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

Events

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. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
  2. 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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