1595 in poetry

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Events

Works published

Saint Robert Southwell, S.J., executed this year; illustration from the frontispiece of Saint Peters Complaint, first published this year

Great Britain

• Anonymous, The Fissher-Mans Tale, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588^[1]
• William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
• Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets^[1]
• Richard Barnfield, Cynthia^[1]
• Nicholas Breton, Marie Magdalens Love; A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love^[1]
• Thomas Campion, Poemata
• George Chapman, published anonymously, Ovids Banquet of Sence, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna^[1]
• Thomas Churchyard, A Musicall Consort of Heavenly Harmonie (Compounded Out of Manie Parts of Musicke) Called Churchyyards Charitie^[1]
• Samuel Daniel, The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Warres Betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also Poeticall Essayes 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and Civile Warres 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)^[1]
• Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus^[2]
• Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen, published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
• Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires^[1]
• Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
• Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices^[2]
• George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives' Tale (play) printed^[3]
• Francis Sabie, The Fisher-mans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight
• Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, English criticism (written between 1580–1583; published for the first time posthumously)^[4][5]
• Saint Robert Southwell:
  • Moeniae^[1]
  • Saint Peters Complaint, with Other Poemes, published anonymously; three editions this year; it is possible there were several manuscripts in circulation before the first printed edition appeared (see also S. Peters Complaint 1616)^[1]
• Edmund Spenser:
  • Amoretti and Epithalamion^[1]
  • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, includes "Astrophel: A pastorall elegie upon the death of Sidney", and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others^[1]

Other

• Luís de Camões, Rimas, Portugal

Births

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

• December 4 – Jean Chapelain (died 1674), French poet and writer
• Also:
  • Thomas Carew (died 1640), English poet
  • Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (died 1676), French poet and playwright
  • Bihari Lal (died 1663), Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses)
  • Francesco Pona (died 1655), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer
  • Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (died 1640), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
  • Robert Sempill the younger (died c.1663), Scottish poet

Deaths

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

• February 21 – Saint Robert Southwell (born c. 1561), English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor
• March 18 – Jean de Sponde (born 1557), French poet, writer, translator and humanist
• April 25 – Torquato Tasso (born 1544), Italian
• May 25 – Valens Acidalius (born 1567), German, Latin-language poet and critic
• October 15 – Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
• November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
• Also:
  • Meurig Dafydd (born c. 1510), Welsh bard
  • Thomas Edwards (born unknown), English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus

See also

• Poetry portal

• 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

1. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
2. Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books.
3. Fowler, Alastair (1991). A History of English Literature. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 71. ISBN 0-674-39664-2.
4. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.
5. Craig, D. H. (1986). "A Hybrid Growth: Sidney's Theory of Poetry in An Apology for Poetry." In Kinney, Arthur F., ed. Essential Articles for the Study of Sir Philip Sidney. Hamden: Archon Books.