1593 in poetry

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

Works published

Title page of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, published this year

• Anonymous, The Phoeix 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 volume^[1]
• Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes^[1]
• Anthony Chute, Shore's Wife^[1]
• Henry Constable, Spirituall sonnettes, to the honour of God: and hys saintes, written but unpublished at this time^[2]
• Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs^[1]
• Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love^[1]
• Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532^[1]
• Thomas Lodge, Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights^[1]
• Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)^[1]
• Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)^[1]
• George Peele, The Honour of the Garter^[1]
• 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)^[1]
• Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy^[3]

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:

• 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; murdered at Deptford
• Also:
  • Jeong Cheol, who wrote under the pen names "Gyeham" 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
• 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, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. British Library, Harleian Collection MS 7553.
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications