1595 in poetry
This article covers 1595 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Anonymous,, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588
- William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia
- Barnabe Barnes,
- Richard Barnfield, Cynthia
- Nicholas Breton,
- Thomas Campion, Poemata
- George Chapman, published anonymously,, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna
- Thomas Churchyard,
- Samuel Daniel,
- Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus
- Stephen Gosson,, published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
- Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires
- Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
- Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices
- George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives' Tale (play) printed
- 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
- Saint Robert Southwell:
- * Moeniae
- * 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
- Edmund Spenser:
- * Amoretti and Epithalamion
- *, includes, and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others
Other
- Luís de Camões, Rimas, Portugal
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- December 4 - Jean Chapelain, French poet and writer
- Also:
- * Thomas Carew, English poet
- * Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin, French poet and playwright
- * Bihari Lal, Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī
- * Francesco Pona, Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer
- * Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
- * Robert Sempill the younger, Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- February 21 - Saint Robert Southwell, English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor
- March 18 - Jean de Sponde, French poet, writer, translator and humanist
- April 25 - Torquato Tasso, Italian
- May 25 - Valens Acidalius, German, Latin-language poet and critic
- October 15 - Faizi, Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
- November 5 - Luis Barahona de Soto, Spanish
- Also:
- * Meurig Dafydd, Welsh bard
- * Thomas Edwards, English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and ''Narcissus''