1595 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
... 1585 1586 1587 1588 1589 1590 1591 ... 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598 ... 1599 1600 1601 1602 1603 1604 1605 ...
In literature 1592 1593 1594 1595 1596 1597 1598
Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Philosophy Science +...

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

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]
• 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^[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
• Also:
  • Thomas Edwards (born unknown), author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus
  • Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
  • Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar

See also

• 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.