1593 in poetry

Works published

• Anonymous, The Phoenix 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
• Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes
• Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife
• Henry Constable, **, written but unpublished at this time
• Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs
• Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love
• Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532
• Thomas Lodge, **
• Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)
• Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)
• George Peele, The Honour of the Garter
• 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)
• Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy

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:
  • Chŏng Ch'ŏl, who wrote under the pen names "Kyeham" 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

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. [[British Library]], [[Harleian Collection]] MS 7553.
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