1590 in poetry

Events

• With the encouragement of Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser joins him on a trip to London, where Raleigh presented the celebrated poet to Queen Elizabeth I.

Works

• George Peele, Polyhymnia
• Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3, 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.)

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
  • 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
  • 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

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

Notes

References

1. Web page titled [http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm "Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography"] {{webarchive. link. (2012-01-02 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. 0-8047-3231-0, {{ISBN. 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009