Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

England

• Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard^[1]
• Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta^[1]
• George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek^[1]
• Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592)^[1]
• Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592)^[1]
• Michael Drayton:
  • Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets^[1]
  • Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596)^[1]
  • Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall^[1]
• Robert Greene:
  • Orlando Furioso, published anonymously^[1]
  • See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
• Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris^[2]
• Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis^[1]
• Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande^[1]
• Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose^[1]
• Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music^[1]
• John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms^[2]
• William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, as Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640^[1]
• Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
• Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets^[2]

Other

• Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy^[3]
• Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism^[4]

Births

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

• March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch
• September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French
• Also:
  • John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English
  • James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet
  • Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française

Deaths

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

• c. February 7 – Barnabe Googe (born 1540), English pastoral poet and translator
• May 30 – Bálint Balassi (born 1554), Hungarian lyric poet^[5]
• August 15 (bur.) – Thomas Kyd (born 1558), English dramatist and poet
• November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla (born 1533), Spanish