1595 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588
• William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
• Barnabe Barnes,
• Richard Barnfield, Cynthia
• Nicholas Breton,
• Thomas Campion, Poemata
• George Chapman, published anonymously, , allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna
• Thomas Churchyard,
• 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)
• Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus
• Stephen Gosson, , published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
• Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires
• Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
• Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices
• George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives' Tale (play) printed
• 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)
• Saint Robert Southwell:
  • Moeniae
  • 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)
• Edmund Spenser:
  • Amoretti and Epithalamion
  • , includes , and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others

Other

• Luís de Camões, Rimas, Portugal

Births

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

• December 4 – Jean Chapelain (died 1674), French poet and writer
• Also:
  • Thomas Carew (died 1640), English poet
  • Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (died 1676), French poet and playwright
  • Bihari Lal (died 1663), Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses)
  • Francesco Pona (died 1655), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer
  • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (died 1640), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
  • Robert Sempill the younger (died c.1663), Scottish poet

Deaths

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

• February 21 – Saint Robert Southwell (born c. 1561), English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor
• March 18 – Jean de Sponde (born 1557), French poet, writer, translator and humanist
• April 25 – Torquato Tasso (born 1544), Italian
• May 25 – Valens Acidalius (born 1567), German, Latin-language poet and critic
• October 15 – Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
• November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
• Also:
  • Meurig Dafydd (born c. 1510), Welsh bard
  • Thomas Edwards (born unknown), English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. [[Edward Lucie-Smith. Lucie-Smith, Edward]], ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books.
3. Fowler, Alastair. (1991). "A History of English Literature". Harvard University Press.
4. (1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics". MJF Books/Fine Communications.
5. 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.