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Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, :So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.}}

— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"

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Events

May 20 – London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues Shake-speares Sonnets, with a dedication to "Mr. W.H.", and the poem A Lover's Complaint appended; it is uncertain whether this publication has Shakespeare's authority.
October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie (London). The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft.

Works in English

Robert Armin:
- The Italian Taylor, and his Boy
- The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke
George Chapman, Homer Prince of Poets, translation of Homer's Iliad, published about this year
Samuel Daniel completes the eighth and last book of his epic poem, The Civile Wars Betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke Corrected and Continued (also known as Civil Wars)
John Davies:
- The Holy Roode; or, Christs Crosse
- Humours Heav'n on Earth: With the civile warres of death and fortune
Thomas Heywood, Troia Britanica; or, Great Britaines Troy, translated in part from Ovid
Gervase Markham, The Famous Whore, or Noble Curtizan, based on Joachim Du Bellay's La vielle courtisane
Samuel Rowlands, A Whole Crew of Kind Gossips, published anonymously, includes "Tis Merrie When Gossips Meete" (1602)
William Shakespeare, Shake-speares Sonnets
Edmund Spenser, Two Cantos of Mutabilitie published together with a reprint of The Fairie Queene
John Wilbye, The Second Set of Madrigales

Works published in other languages

Luis Belmonte Bermúdez, Vida del Padre Maestro Ignacio de Loyola ("Life of Father Ignatius of Loyola"), an epic poem on the saint's lifeComte, Deborah, "Belmonte Bermúdez, Luis de", article, p 183, Bleiberg, Germán, Dictionary of the literature of the Iberian peninsula, Volume 1, as retrieved from Google Books on September 6, 2011 Spain
Marc Lescarbot, Les Muses de la Nouvelle-France, French Canada

Births

February 10 – John Suckling (died 1642), English
August 19 – Jean Rotrou (died 1650), French poet and tragedian
October 5 – Paul Fleming (died 1640), German

Deaths

March 9 – William Warner (born c. 1558), English
December 4 – Alexander Hume (born c. 1560), Scottish
December – Barnabe Barnes (born c. 1571) English
date not known
- Anthony Copley (born 1567), English Catholic poet and conspirator
- Kanaka Dasa (born 1509), Karnatakan poet, philosopher, musician and composer

Notes

References

Opie, Iona. (1997). "The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes". Oxford University Press.
(2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
0-521-64199-3, p xx, retrieved via Google Books, September 24, 2009
(1993). "The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics". MJF Books/Fine Communications.

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