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1590 in poetry
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1590 poetry literature
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
With the encouragement of Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser joins him on a trip to London, where Raleigh presented the celebrated poet to Queen Elizabeth I.Web page titled "Edmund Spenser Home Page/Biography" https://web.archive.org/web/20120102013123/http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenser/biography.htm 2012-01-02 at the website of the University of Cambridge Faculty of English, retrieved September 24, 2009
Works
George Peele, PolyhymniaCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3, in honour of Queen Elizabeth I
Sir Philip Sidney, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia, Books 1–3 (see also expanded editions of 1593, 1598, 1621, etc.)
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 18 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa (died 1649), Portuguese historian and poet
June 24 – Samuel Ampzing (died 1632), Dutch clergyman and poet
September 12 – María de Zayas (died 1661), Spanish poet and playwright
Also:
Baltasar del Alcazar born (died 1606), Spanish
William Browne (died 1645), English
Shen Yixiu (died 1635), Chinese poet and mother of female poets Ye Xiaoluan, Ye Wanwan and Ye XiaowanKang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism, Stanford University Press, 1999, 0-8047-3231-0, 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
Faqi Tayran, also spelled "Feqiyê Teyran", pen name of Mir Mihemed (died 1660), Kurdish
Hu Wenru (flourished about this year), Chinese official courtesan known for her poetry painting and playing the qin
Théophile de Viau (died 1626), French poet and playwright
Xu Yuan (poet) (flourished about this year), Chinese woman poet nicknamed "Xie reincarnate" in reference to Xie Daoyun
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March – Petru Cercel (born unknown), Wallachian prince and poet
August 28 – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (born 1544), French writer and poet
November 29 – Philipp Nicodemus Frischlin (born 1547), German philologist, poet, playwright, mathematician and astronomer
September 20 – Robert Garnier (born 1544), French poet and playwright
Also:
George Puttenham (born 1529), English writer and critic
Étienne Tabourot (born 1549), French
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
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