1596 in poetry
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From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition
— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax[1]
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Events
Works published in English
- Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad[2]
- Thomas Campion, Poemata
- Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars[2]
- Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible[2]
- Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions[2]
- Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune[2]
- Roger Cotton:
- Sir John Davies, published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing[2]
- John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint[2]
- Michael Drayton:
- Mortimeriados,[2] a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)[2]
- The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston[2]
- Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
- Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (also known by the shorter title Metamorphosis of Ajax), a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court[1]
- Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse[2]
- Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven[2]
- William Smith, Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard[2]
- Edmund Spenser:
- Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
- Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
- Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset[2]
- The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1–3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609)[2]
- William Warner, Albions England, fourth edition (12 books); see also Albions England 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, A Continuance of Albions England 1606[2]
Works published in other languages
- Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
- Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism[3]
Births
- September 4 – Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer
- September – James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright
- Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
- October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet
- Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- Georg List (born 1532), German
- Henry Willobie (born 1575), English
- Ou Daren (born 1516), Ming dynasty poet and scholar
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
- ^ a b Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
