1596 in poetry
This article covers 1596 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
— From Sir John Harington, ''A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax''
Works published in English
- Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad
- Thomas Campion, Poemata
- Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
- Henoch Clapham,
- Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
- Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune
- Roger Cotton:
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- Sir John Davies, published anonymously,
- John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint
- Michael Drayton:
- * Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima
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- Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
- Sir John Harington,, a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
- Gervase Markham,
- Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven
- William Smith,
- Edmund Spenser:
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- * Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
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- * The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books
- William Warner,, fourth edition ; see also 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, 1606
Works published in other languages
- Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
- Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética , Spanish criticism
Births
- September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer
- September - James Shirley, English poet and playwright
- Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
- October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet
- Bargeo, Italian, Latin-language poet
- Georg List, German
- Henry Willobie, English
- Ou Daren, Ming dynasty poet and scholar