1595 in poetry explained
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Works published
- Anonymous,, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588[1]
- William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
- Barnabe Barnes, [1]
- Richard Barnfield, Cynthia[1]
- Nicholas Breton, [1]
- Thomas Campion, Poemata
- George Chapman, published anonymously,, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna[1]
- Thomas Churchyard, [1]
- Samuel Daniel, (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)[1]
- Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus[2]
- Stephen Gosson,, 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]
- , includes, 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 and References
- Book: Cox, Michael. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. 2004. 0-19-860634-6. registration.
- [Edward Lucie-Smith|Lucie-Smith, Edward]
- Book: Fowler, Alastair. A History of English Literature. Harvard University Press. Cambridge, MA. 1991. 71. 0-674-39664-2.
- Book: Preminger, Alex . Brogan, T. V. F. . The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. 1993. New York. MJF Books/Fine Communications. etal.
- 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.