1593 in poetry explained

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

Works published

• Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume^[1]
• Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes^[1]
• Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife^[1]
• Henry Constable, , written but unpublished at this time^[2]
• Michael Drayton, Idea: the garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs^[1]
• Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love^[1]
• Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532^[1]
• Thomas Lodge, ^[1]
• Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)^[1]
• Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)^[1]
• George Peele, The Honour of the Garter^[1]
• William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)^[1]
• Torquato Tasso, Italian: Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Italian: Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy^[3]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 3  - George Herbert (died 1633), Welsh poet, orator and priest
• June 24  - Abraham von Franckenberg (died 1652), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
• Also:
  • Barten Holyday (died 1661), English clergyman, author and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• January 12  - Amadis Jamyn (born 1538), French poet
• August 19  - Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
• May 30  - Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
• Also:
  • Jeong Cheol, who wrote under the pen names "Gyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
  • Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
  • Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
  • Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
  • Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist

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 and References

1. Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
2. [British Library]
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications