1600 in poetry

Works

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered (writing under the pen name "Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe")
• Nicholas Breton:
  • Melancholike Humours
  • Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message (published anonymously)
  • Pasquils Mistresse; or, The Worthie and Unworthie Woman (published under the pen name "Salochin Treboun")
  • Pasquils Passe, and Passeth Not
  • The Second Part of Pasquils Mad-cap intituled: The Fooles-cap
• Thomas Deloney (uncertain attribution), Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron
• John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (First Booke, 1597; Third and Last Booke, 1603)
• Edward Fairfax, translator (of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem
• Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour
• Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (posthumous)
• Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester
• Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece
• Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute
• John Norden, **
• Samuel Rowlands:
  • The Letting of Humors Bood in the Head-vaine
  • A Merry Meeting, ordered burned and no copy is now extant (republished under the title The Knave of Cubbes in 1612)
• Thomas Weelkes' Canto
• John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham

Anthologies in Great Britain

• Robert Allott (initialed "R. A.", generally attributed to Allott), editor, Englands Parnassus; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons
• John Bodenham (published anonymously, usually attributed to him, sometimes to Anthony Munday), editor, Bel-vedere; or, The Garden of the Muses, anthology
• John Flasket, Englands Helicon, English anthology with poems by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others

Other

• Siddha Basavaraja, Bedagina Vachanagalu, anthology, India
• François de Malherbe, Ode à la reine sur sa bienvenue en France, recited at the reception given to Marie de Médicis in Aix; the poem attracted the attention of Henry IV of France, to whose court Malherbe is attached in 1605, France
• Romancero general, anthology, Spain

Births

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

• January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (died 1681), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
• November – John Ogilby (died 1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer
• Also:
  • Marin le Roy de Gomberville (died 1674), French poet and novelist
  • Piaras Feiritéar (hanged 1653), Irish
  • Richard Flecknoe (died 1678), English dramatist and poet
  • Petru Fudduni (died 1670), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
  • Johannes Plavius (died unknown), German poet
  • Daulat Qazi (died 1638), medieval Bengali poet

Deaths

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

• April – Thomas Deloney (born 1543), English novelist and balladist
• Also:
  • Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (born 1533), Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer
  • Bâkî باقى pen name Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known as Sultânüş-şuarâ سلطان الشعرا ("Sultan of poets"; born 1526), Turkish poet, called one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature
  • Cyprian Bazylik (born 1535), Polish composer, poet, printer and writer
  • Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (born 1550), Irish poet of the Mac Aodhagáin clan

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. France, Peter, editor, ''The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French'', 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, {{ISBN. 0-19-866125-8
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