1599 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Samuel Daniel becomes poet laureate in England this year
Works published
- Robert Allott, Wits Theater of the Little World
- Nicholas Breton, The Passions of the Spirit, published anonymously
- Thomas Churchyard, The Fortunate Farewel to the Most Forward and Noble Earle of Essex
- Samuel Daniel, The Poeticall Essayes of Sam. Danyel, including The Civiill Wars in five books
- Sir John Davies:
- * Hymnes of Astraea, in Acrosticke Verse, published anonymously
- * Nosce Teipsum
- Michael Drayton, Idea
- Christopher Marlowe, translator and Sir John Davies, All Ovids Elegies, three books, publication year uncertain, contains epigrams by Davies
- Thomas Middleton, Micro-Cynicon, attributed to Middleton by some scholars
- William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrime; or, Certaine Amorous Sonnets, only two sheets of the first edition are extant; second edition also published this year; contains 20 poems, including versions of Sonnets 138 and 144, and three extracts from Love's Labour's Lost, and poems by others
- Edmund Spenser, Prothalamion
- Thomas Storer, The Life and Death of Thomas Wolsey Cardinall
- John Weever, ''Epigrammes in the Oldest Cut, and Newest Fashion''
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- September 7 - Jacob Westerbaen, Dutch poet
- December 16 - Jacques Vallée, Sieur Des Barreaux, French poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 13 - Edmund Spenser, English poet, died in Westminster and was buried, at the expense of the Earl of Essex, in Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey next to Geoffrey Chaucer; poets carried his coffin, throwing their verses and pens into his grave
- October 16 - Jakob Regnart, Franco-Flemish composer who spent most of his career in Austria and Bohemia, where he wrote both sacred and secular music and poetry in German
- Also:
- * Jerónimo Bermúdez, Spanish dramatist, poet, and playwright
- * Giorgio Cichino, Italian, Latin-language poet
- * Eknath, Marathi language religious poet in the Hindu tradition of India
- * Shah Hussain, Punjabi Sufi poet and Sufi saint; born in Lahore ; considered a pioneer of the kafi form of Punjabi poetry
- * Dominicus Lampsonius, Flemish humanist, poet, and artist
- * Bartholomäus Ringwaldt, German