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1596 in poetry

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Works published in English

  • Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad
  • Thomas Campion, Poemata
  • Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
  • Henoch Clapham,
  • Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
  • Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune

Roger Cotton:

  • Sir John Davies, published anonymously,
  • John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint
  • Michael Drayton:
    • Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)
  • Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
  • Sir John Harington, , a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
  • Gervase Markham,
  • Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven
  • William Smith,

    • Edmund Spenser:

    • Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
    • The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1–3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609)
  • William Warner, , fourth edition (12 books); see also 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, 1606

    • Works published in other languages

    • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
    • Alonso Pinciano, *Filosofía antigua poética * ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism

    Births

    • September 4 – Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer
    • September – James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright
    • Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

    Deaths

    • October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet
    • Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet
    • Georg List (born 1532), German
    • Henry Willobie (born 1575), English
    • Ou Daren (born 1516), Ming dynasty poet and scholar

    Notes

    References

    1. Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
    2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
    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
    4. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.
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