1594 in poetry
This article covers 1594 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
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- Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard
- 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
- George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek
- Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana
- Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra
- Michael Drayton:
- * Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets
- * Matilda
- * Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall
- Robert Greene:
- * Orlando Furioso, published anonymously
- * See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
- Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris
- Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis
- Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
- Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose
- Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music
- John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms
- 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
- 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
Other
- Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
- Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 25 - Maria Tesselschade Visscher, Dutch
- September 30 - Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant, French
- Also:
- * John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain, English
- * James Howell, birth year uncertain, English pamphleteer and poet
- * Jacques de Serisay, French poet and the founding director of the Académie française
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- c. February 7 - Barnabe Googe, English pastoral poet and translator
- May 30 - Bálint Balassi, Hungarian lyric poet
- August 15 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist and poet
- November 29 - Alonso de Ercilla, Spanish