1591 in poetry

none 1591 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for lifeHadfield, Andrew, The Cambridge Companion to Spenser, "Chronology", Cambridge University Press, 2001, 0-521-64199-3, p xix, retrieved via Google Books, September 24, 2009 (see Spenser's Complaints, in "Works" section below) Works published Great Britain thumb|Title page of Philip Sidney's Astrophel and Stella Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of DelightsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm Thomas Campion, Astrophel and StellaLucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books Michael Drayton, The Harmonie of the Church (republished 1610 under the title A Heavenly Harmonie) Abraham Fraunce: The Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch, Part 1 adapted from Torquato Tasso's Aminta; Part 2 a revision of Fraunce's translation of Amyntas 1587 by Thomas Watson; volume also includes translations of the second Bucolic of Virgil (first published in Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike) and of the opening of Heliodorus's Aethiopica (see also The Third Part 1592) Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto James VI of Scotland, Lepanto George Peele, Decensus Astraeae, a pageant for the lord mayor of London Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella published (posthumously) first this year from an unauthorized, corrupt text, with 107 sonnets and 10 songs by Sidney, with other verse by Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Greville, Edward de Vere and others, as well as a preface by Thomas Nashe. The text, copied down by an employee of an associate of Sidney, had so many errors and misreadings that Sidney's friends secured all the unsold copies.Wilson Mona Sir Philip Sidney London Duckworth 1931 168–169 The volume was then published again this year in a corrected edition, also unauthorized, with 94 sonnets by Sidney and none of the additional poems. (The poem was again published in about 1597, with at least one source, Mona Wilson, stating 1598. This version of the poem, now commonly used, appeared in the folio of the 1598 version of Sidney's Arcadia, although even that version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke.) Edmund Spenser: Complaints, including "The Ruines of Time"; "The Teares of the Muses"; "Virgils Gnat"; "Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberds Tale"; "Muiopotmos"; "Visions of the Words Vanitie"; the volume lampoons William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who had interceded with Queen Elizabeth I to reduce the handsome pension she had originally promised Spenser (see "Events", above); although this volume was printed, it was suppressed (or "called in") almost immediatelyhttp://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm Edmund Spenser – Biography University of Cambridge Faculty of English 2009-09-24 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120102013123/http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm 2012-01-02 Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (although one source states this was the year of publication, another states the work was first published in London in January 1592, according to one source) Other Hernando de Acuña, Diverses Poésies, also known as es Varias poesías, Spain Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher and poet writing in Latin in a style imitating Lucretius and expressing his philosophical, cosmological speculations in their final form; printed by John Wenchel in Frankfort, Germany: la De innumerabilibus immenso et infigurabiliYates, Frances Amelia, Renaissance and reform: the Italian contribution, Taylor & Francis United States, 1983, 978-0-7100-9530-5, retrieved via Google Books on May 18, 2009 la De triplici et minimo et mensura la De monade numero et figura Philippe Desportes, Psaumes, France Andrés de Villalta. es Flor de varios y nuevos romances, including a ballad by Miguel de Cervantes, Spain Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 25 – Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld (died 1635), German Jesuit and poet August 24 (baptised) – Robert Herrick (died 1674), English November 2 – August Buchner (died 1661), German poet and critic Also: Akha Bhagat (Akho) (died 1659), Indian poet, Vedantist and radicalMohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, 978-0-313-28778-7, retrieved December 10, 2008 Jakob Jakobeus (died 1645), Slovak Alexander Ross, birth year uncertain (died 1654), Scottish poet, author and controversialist Ivan Bunić Vučić (died 1658), Ragusan, Croatian-language poet Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (died 1635), German Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: July 22 – Veronica Franco (born 1546), Italian poet and courtesan August 23 – Luis de Leon died (born 1527), Spanish December 14 – St. John of the Cross (Spanish: "San Juan de la Cruz"; born Juan de Yepes y Álvarez 1542), Spanish (erysipelas) Also – Johann Fischart (born 1546 or 1547), German satirist and publicist See also Poetry Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature University Wits Notes Category:16th-century poetry Poetry