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1595 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain * Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's ''Pandosto'' 1588 * William Alabaster, ''Roxana, tragædia'' (approximate date) * 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, (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also 1599, ''Works'' 1601 (six books), and 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books) * Thomas Edwards, ''Cephalus and Procris'', ''Narcissus'' Lucie-Smith, Edward, ''Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse'', 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books. * Stephen Gosson, , published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem * Thomas Lodge, ''A Fig for M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1609 In Poetry
''— Last lines from William Shakespeare's ''Sonnet 18'', published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events *May 20 – London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues ''Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shake-speares Sonnets'', with a dedication to "Mr. W.H.", and the poem ''A Lover's Complaint'' appended; it is uncertain whether this publication has William Shakespeare, Shakespeare's authority. *October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" is published in ''Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie'' (London). The editor, and possible author of the verse, is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft. Works in English * Robert Armin: ** ''The Italian Taylor, and his Boy'' ** ''The History of the Two Maids of More-clacke'' * George Chapman, ''Homer Prince of Poets'', translation of Homer's ''Iliad' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1616 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * February 1 – King James I of England grants Ben Jonson an annual pension of 100 marks, making him ''de facto'' poet laureate. Works published Great Britain * William Browne, ''Britannia's Pastorals. The Second Booke'' (see also Book 1, 1613; both books published together 1625) * George Chapman, translator: ** ''The Divine Poem of Musaeus. First of all Books'', translated from Musaeus', ''De Herone et Leandro'' (Hero and Leander) ** ''The Whole Works of Homer'', publication year uncertain (see also ''Seaven Bookes of the Iliades of Homer'' 1598, ''Homer Prince of Poets'' 1609, ''The Iliads of Homer'' 1611, ''Homers Odysses'' 1614, ''Twenty-four Bookes of Homers Odisses'' 1615) * Ben Jonson: ** ''To Celia'' ** ''On my first Sonne'' ** ''The Workes of Beniamin Ionson'' ( the first folio collection, including ''Epigrams'' and ''The Forest'') * Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Southwell (jesuit)
Robert Southwell (c. 1561 – 21 February 1595), also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English people, English Roman Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also a poet, hymnodist, and clandestine missionary in Elizabethan England. After being arrested and imprisoned in 1592, and intermittently tortured and questioned by Richard Topcliffe, Southwell was eventually tried and convicted of high treason for his links to the Holy See. On 21 February 1595, Father Southwell was hanged at Tyburn, London, Tyburn. In 1970, he was canonised by Pope Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Early life in England He was born at Horsham St Faith, Norfolk, England. Southwell, the youngest of eight children, was brought up in a family of the Norfolk gentry. Despite their Catholic sympathies, the Southwells had profited considerably from King Henry VIII's Suppression of the Monasteries. Robert was third son of Richard Southwell of Horsham St. Faith's, Norfolk, by his first wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Apology For Poetry
''An Apology for Poetry'' (or ''The Defence of Poesy'') is a work of literary criticism by Elizabethan poet Philip Sidney. It was written in approximately 1580 and first published in 1595, after his death. It is generally believed that he was at least partly motivated by Stephen Gosson, a former playwright who dedicated his attack on the English stage, ''The School of Abuse'', to Sidney in 1579, but Sidney primarily addresses more general objections to poetry, such as those of Plato. In his essay, Sidney integrates a number of classical and Italian precepts on fiction. The essence of his defense is that poetry, by combining the liveliness of history with the ethical focus of philosophy, is more effective than either history or philosophy in rousing its readers to virtue. The work also offers important comments on Edmund Spenser and the Elizabethan stage. Sidney states that there "have been three general kinds" of poetry: (i) "the ''chief''" being religious which "imitate the in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sidney
Philip, also Phillip, is a male given name, derived from the Greek language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominent Philips who popularized the name include List of kings of Macedonia, kings of Macedonia and one of the apostles of early Christianity. ''Philip'' has #Philip in other languages, many alternative spellings. One derivation often used as a surname is Phillips (surname), Phillips. It was also found during ancient Greek times with two Ps as Philippides (other), Philippides and Philippos. It has many diminutive (or even hypocorism, hypocoristic) forms including Phil, Philly (other)#People, Philly, Lip (other), Lip, Pip (other), Pip, Pep (other), Pep or Peps. There are also feminine forms such as Philippine de Rothschild, Philippine and Philippa. Antiquity Kings of Macedon * Philip I of Macedon * Philip II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Sabie
Francis Sabie ('' fl.'' 1595) was an English poet. Sabie was a schoolmaster at Lichfield in 1587 (Arber, Stationers' Registers, ii. 146). He published three volumes of verse—two in 1595, and one in 1596. His earliest publication, in two parts, was ''The Fishermans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight,'' 1595. The second part bears the heading ''Flora's Fortune. The second part and finishing of the Fisher-mans Tale.'' The poem, which was licensed for publication to Richard Jones on 11 Nov. 1594, is a paraphrase in blank verse of ''Pandosto,'' afterwards renamed ''Dorastus and Fawnia,'' a romance by Robert Greene (1560?–1592). A reprint from a Bodleian manuscript, limited to ten copies, was issued by James Orchard Halliwell (afterwards Halliwell-Phillipps) in 1867. Later in 1595 there appeared ''Pan's Pipe, Three Pastorall Eglogues in English Hexameter, with other poetical verses delightfull.'' The publisher was again Richard Jones, who obta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Old Wives Tale (play)
''The Old Wives' Tale'' is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595. The play has been identified as the first English work to satirize the romantic dramas popular at the time. Although only the titles of most of these popular works have survived, they seem to be unrelated composites of popular romantic and fairy-tale motifs of the era. They were full of romantic inventions but devoid of moral content. Peele here presents an amiably ironic and exaggerated version of such a play. ''The Old Wives' Tale'' uses the device of a play within a play to add to the confusion. Peele's version, however, was more carefully composed than similar works of the period. He distilled the romantic and fairy-tale, but he was also able to create detachment; the audience became aware of its taste for the pure romance of the fairy-tale. Some critics regard the play as intentional satire constructed to highlight generic absurdities. Peele's other plays employed a similar structure. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Peele
George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play ''Titus Andronicus''. Many anonymous Elizabethan plays have been attributed to him, but his reputation rests mainly on ''Edward I'', ''The Old Wives' Tale'', ''The Battle of Alcazar'', '' The Arraignment of Paris'', and ''David and Bethsabe''. '' The Troublesome Reign of John, King of England'', the immediate source for Shakespeare's '' King John'', has been published under his name. Life Peele was christened on 25 July 1556 at St James Garlickhythe in the City of London. His father, James Peele (died 30 December 1585), who appears to have belonged to a Devonshire family, was clerk of Christ's Hospital, a school which was then situated in central London, and wrote two treatises on bookkeeping, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Morley
Thomas Morley (1557 – early October 1602) was an English composer, theorist, singer and organist of the Renaissance. He was one of the foremost members of the English Madrigal School. Referring to the strong Italian influence on the English madrigal, ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' states that Morley was "chiefly responsible for grafting the Italian shoot on to the native stock and initiating the curiously brief but brilliant flowering of the madrigal that constitutes one of the most colourful episodes in the history of English music." Living in London at the same time as Shakespeare, Morley was the most famous composer of secular music in Elizabethan England. He and Robert Johnson are the composers of the only surviving contemporary settings of verse by Shakespeare. Morley was active in church music as a singer, composer and organist at St Paul's Cathedral. He was also involved in music publishing. From 1598 up to his death he held a printing patent (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gervase Markham
Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca. 1568 – 3 February 1637) was an English poet and writer. He was best known for his work '' The English Huswife, Containing the Inward and Outward Virtues Which Ought to Be in a Complete Woman'', first published in London in 1615. Life Markham was the third son of Sir Robert Markham of Cotham, Nottinghamshire, and his wife, and was probably born in 1568. He was a soldier of fortune in the Low Countries, and later was a captain under the Earl of Essex's command in Ireland. He was acquainted with Latin and several modern languages, and had an exhaustive practical acquaintance with the arts of forestry and agriculture. He was a noted horse-breeder, and is said to have imported the first Arabian horse to England. Very little is known of the events of his life. The story of the murderous quarrel between Gervase Markham and Sir John Holles related in the ''Biographia'' (s.v. Holles) has been generally connected with him, but in the '' Dictionary of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lodge
Thomas Lodge (c. 1558September 1625) was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Biography Thomas Lodge was born about 1558 in West Ham, the second son of Sir Thomas Lodge, Lord Mayor of London, by his third wife Anne (1528–1579), daughter of Henry Luddington (died 1531), a London grocer. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Trinity College, Oxford; taking his BA in 1577 and MA in 1581. In 1578 he entered Lincoln's Inn, where, as in the other Inns of Court, a love of letters and a crop of debts were common. Lodge, disregarding the wishes of his family, took up literature. When the penitent Stephen Gosson had (in 1579) published his ''Schoole of Abuse'', Lodge responded with ''Defence of Poetry, Music and Stage Plays'' (1579 or 1580), which shows a certain restraint, though both forceful and learned. The pamphlet was banned, but appears to have been circulated privately. It was answered by Gosson i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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