1593 in poetry

Works published

• 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 volume
• 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• Henry Constable, ', written but unpublished at this time
• Michael Drayton, Idea: the ' 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,
• Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets
• Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music
• 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
• Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy

Births

• April 3 - George Herbert, Welsh poet, orator and priest
• June 24 - Abraham von Franckenberg, German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
• Also:
• * Barten Holyday, English clergyman, author and poet

Deaths

• January 12 - Amadis Jamyn, French poet
• August 19 - Antonio Veneziano, Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
• May 30 - Christopher Marlowe, English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
• Also:
• * Chŏng Ch'ŏl, who wrote under the pen names "Kyeham" and "Songgang", Korean statesman and poet
• * Abraham Fraunce, English poet
• * Judah Moscato, Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
• * Maciej Stryjkowski, Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
• * Xu Wei, Chinese painter, poet and dramatist