This article covers 1593 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- Anonymous, The Phoenix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume
- Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes
- Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife
- Henry Constable, ', written but unpublished at this time
- Michael Drayton, Idea: the ' garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs
- Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love
- Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532
- Thomas Lodge, '
- Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)
- Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)
- George Peele, The Honour of the Garter
- William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)
- Torquato Tasso, ', a rewriting of the author's ' of 1581, Italy
Births
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Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 12 – Amadis Jamyn (born 1538), French poet
- August 19 – Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
- May 30 – Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
- Also:
- ChÃ
Âng Ch'Ã
Âl, who wrote under the pen names "Kyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
- Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
- Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
- Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
- Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist
See also
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