— From Sir
John Harington, ''A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax''
[Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979]
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Irish
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** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
or
France
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).
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Works published in English
* Anonymous, ''King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth'', a ballad
[Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, ]
*
Thomas Campion
Thomas Campion (sometimes spelled Campian; 12 February 1567 – 1 March 1620) was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, studied law in Gray's inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques ...
, ''Poemata''
* Thomas Churchyard, ''A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars''
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* 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
Sir John Davies (16 April 1569 (baptised)8 December 1626) was an English poet, lawyer, and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1597 and 1621. He became Attorney General for Ireland and formulated many of the legal ...
, published anonymously, [
* John Dickenson, ''The Shepheardes Complaint''][
* ]Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton (1563 – 23 December 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era. He died on 23 December 1631 in London.
Early life
Drayton was born at Hartshill, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England. Almost nothin ...
:
** ''Mortimeriados'',[ a long poem on the ]Wars of the Roses
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, in ottava rima
Ottava rima is a rhyming stanza form of Italian origin. Originally used for long poems on heroic themes, it later came to be popular in the writing of mock-heroic works. Its earliest known use is in the writings of Giovanni Boccaccio.
The ott ...
(revised as ''The Barrons Wars'' 1603
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January–June
* February 25 – Dutch–Portuguese War: the Portuguese ship '' Santa Catarina'' is seized by Dutch East India Company ships off Singapore. The first permanent Dutch trading post in Indonesia is established ...
)[
** ][
* ]Bartholomew Griffin
Bartholomew Griffin (fl. 1596) was an English poet. He is known for his ''Fidessa'' sequence of sonnets, published in 1596.
Works
In August 1572 the Queen made a progress to Warwick, spending several days at Kenilworth Castle as guest of the Earl ...
, ''Fidessa'', a sequence of sonnets
* Sir John Harington, , a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
* 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 publishe ...
, [
* Christopher Middleton, ''The Historie of Heaven''][
* William Smith, ][
* Edmund Spenser:
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** ''Fowre Hymnes'', published with the second edition of ''Daphnaida'' ]1591
Events
January–June
* March 13 – Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the fractured Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by ...
** [
** ''The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books'' (books 1–3 first published in ]1590
Events
January–June
* January 4 – The Cortes of Castile approves a new subsidy, the '' millones''.
* March 4 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange, takes Breda, by concealing 68 of his best men in a peat-boat, t ...
; see also ''Faerie Queene'' 1609
Events
January–June
* January – The Basque witch trials begin.
* January 15 – One of the world's first newspapers, ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire).
* January 3 ...
)[
* William Warner, , fourth edition (12 books); see also ]1586
Events
* January 18 – The 7.9 Tenshō earthquake strikes the Chubu region of Japan, triggering a tsunami and causing at least 8,000 deaths.
* June 16 – The deposed and imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots, recognizes Philip II of ...
, second edition 1589
Events
January–June
* War of the Three Henrys: In France, the Catholic League is in rebellion against King Henry III, in revenge for his murder of Henry I, Duke of Guise in December 1588. The King makes peace with his old ri ...
, third edition 1592
Events
January–June
* January 30 – Pope Clement VIII (born Ippolito Aldobrandini) succeeds Pope Innocent IX, who died one month earlier, as the 231st pope. He immediately recalls the Sixtine Vulgate.
* February 7 – G ...
, fifth edition 1602
Events January–June
* January 3 – Battle of Kinsale: The English defeat Irish rebels and their Spanish allies. (The battle happens on this date according to the Gregorian calendar used by the Irish and Spanish but on Thursday, 24 De ...
, 1606
Events
January–June
* January 24 – Gunpowder Plot: The trial of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators, for plotting against Parliament and James I of England, begins.
* January 29 – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the Pi ...
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]
Works published in other languages
* Francisco Rodrigues Lobo
Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (1580 – 4 November 1622), sometimes called the ''Portuguese Theocritus,'' was a Portuguese poet and bucolic writer.
He was born of rich and noble New Christian parents in Leiria, reading philosophy, poetry and writing of ...
, ''Romances''
* Alonso Pinciano, ''Filosofía antigua poética '' ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish
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criticism[Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications]
Births
* September 4 – Constantijn Huygens
Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem ( , , ; 4 September 159628 March 1687), was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Ch ...
(died 1687
Events
January–March
* January 3 – With the end of latest of the Savoyard–Waldensian wars in the Duchy of Savoy between the Savoyard government and Protestant Italians known as the Waldensians, Victor Amadeus III, Duke ...
), Dutch
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People E ...
poet and composer
* September – James Shirley
James Shirley (or Sherley) (September 1596 – October 1666) was an English dramatist.
He belonged to the great period of English dramatic literature, but, in Charles Lamb's words, he "claims a place among the worthies of this period, not so m ...
(died 1666
This is the first year to be designated as an ''Annus mirabilis'', in John Dryden's 1667 poem so titled, celebrating England's failure to be beaten either by the Dutch or by fire. It is the only year to contain each Roman numeral once in d ...
), English
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poet and playwright
* Xiao Yuncong
Xiao Yuncong (; 1596–1673) was a famed Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.Cihai: Page 594.
Xiao was born in Wuhu in Anhui province, at that time part of Taiping Prefecture. His style ...
(died 1673
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
* February 10 – Molière's ''comédie-ballet'' ''The Imag ...
), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
* October 3 – Florent Chrestien
Florent Chrestien (January 26, 1541 – October 3, 1596) was a French satirist and Latin poet.
Chrestien was the son of Guillaume Chrestien, an eminent French physician and writer on physiology, was born at Orléans. A pupil of Henri Estienne, the ...
(born 1540
Year 1540 ( MDXL) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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* January 6 – King Henry VIII marries Anne of Cleves, his fourth Queen consort; the ma ...
), French satirist and Latin
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poet
* Bargeo (born 1517
Year 1517 ( MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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January–June
* January 22 – Battle of Ridaniya: The Holy Ottoman army of the sultan Selim I de ...
), Italian
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, Latin
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-language poet[Web page title]
"Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"
at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009
Archived
2009-05-27.
* Georg List
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(born 1532
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* January 22 – São Vicente is established as the first permanent Portuguese settlem ...
), German
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* Henry Willobie
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(born 1575), English
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* Ou Daren
Ou Daren (1516–1596) was a Ming Dynasty scholar. He was a native of Chencun (陳村), Shunde in Guangdong province. Becoming an official with the Second-Degree Scholars (優貢), he was appointed at posts such as Assistant of the Imperial Co ...
(born 1516
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January–June
* January – Juan Díaz de Solís discovers the Río de la Plata (in future A ...
), Ming dynasty
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poet and scholar
See also
* Poetry
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings i ...
* 16th century in poetry
Works published
* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.
* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works).
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England
* John Skelton (c. 1460 ...
* 16th century in literature
* Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
* Elizabethan literature
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* English Madrigal School
The English Madrigal School was the brief but intense flowering of the musical madrigal in England, mostly from 1588 to 1627, along with the composers who produced them. The English madrigals were a cappella, predominantly light in style, and gener ...
* French Renaissance literature
French Renaissance literature is, for the purpose of this article, literature written in French (Middle French) from the French invasion of Italy in 1494 to 1600, or roughly the period from the reign of Charles VIII of France to the ascension of H ...
* Renaissance literature
* Spanish Renaissance literature
Spanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Spanish Renaissance during the 15th and 16th centuries. .
Overview
Political, religious, literary, and military relations between Italy and Spain from the second half o ...
* University Wits
The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities ( Oxford or Cambridge) and who became popular secular writers. Prominent members of this group were ...
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Poetry
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