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1593 poetry literature
This article covers 1593 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
thumb|250px|right|Title page of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, published this year
Anonymous, The Phoenix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volumeCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes
Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife
Henry Constable, Spirituall sonnettes, to the honour of God: and hys saintes, written but unpublished at this timeBritish Library, Harleian Collection MS 7553.
Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs
Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love
Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532
Thomas Lodge, Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights
Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)
Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)
George Peele, The Honour of the Garter
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)
Torquato Tasso, it Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's it Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, ItalyPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 3 – George Herbert (died 1633), Welsh poet, orator and priest
June 24 – Abraham von Franckenberg (died 1652), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
Also:
Barten Holyday (died 1661), English clergyman, author and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 12 – Amadis Jamyn (born 1538), French poet
August 19 – Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
May 30 – Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
Also:
Chŏng Ch'ŏl, who wrote under the pen names "Kyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist
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
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