1600 in poetry
This article covers 1600 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered
- Nicholas Breton:
- * Melancholike Humours
- * Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message
- * Pasquils Mistresse; or, The Worthie and Unworthie Woman
- * Pasquils Passe, and Passeth Not
- * The Second Part of Pasquils Mad-cap intituled: The Fooles-cap
- Thomas Deloney, Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron
- John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres
- Edward Fairfax, translator, Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem
- Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour
- Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia
- Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester
- Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece
- Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute
- John Norden,
- Samuel Rowlands:
- * The Letting of Humors Bood in the Head-vaine
- * A Merry Meeting, ordered burned and no copy is now extant
- Thomas Weelkes' Canto
- John Weever, ''The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham''
Anthologies in Great Britain
- Robert Allott, editor, Englands Parnassus; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons
- John Bodenham, editor, Bel-vedere; or, The Garden of the Muses, anthology
- John Flasket, Englands Helicon, English anthology with poems by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others
Other
- Siddha Basavaraja, Bedagina Vachanagalu, anthology, India
- François de Malherbe, Ode à la reine sur sa bienvenue en France, recited at the reception given to Marie de Médicis in Aix; the poem attracted the attention of Henry IV of France, to whose court Malherbe is attached in 1605, FranceRomancero general, anthology, Spain
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 17 - Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
- November - John Ogilby, Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer
- Also:
- * Marin le Roy de Gomberville, French poet and novelist
- * Piaras Feiritéar, Irish
- * Richard Flecknoe, English dramatist and poet
- * Petru Fudduni, Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
- * Johannes Plavius, German poet
- * Daulat Qazi, medieval Bengali poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April - Thomas Deloney, English novelist and balladist
- Also:
- * Elazar ben Moshe Azikri, Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer
- * Bâkî باقى pen name Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known as Sultânüş-şuarâ سلطان الشعرا, Turkish poet, called one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature
- * Cyprian Bazylik, Polish composer, poet, printer and writer
- * Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin, Irish poet of the Mac Aodhagáin clan