1594 in poetry

This article covers 1594 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

England

• Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard
• Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta
• George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek
• Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592)
• Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592)
• Michael Drayton:
• Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets
• Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596)
• Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall
• Robert Greene:
• Orlando Furioso, published anonymously
• See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
• Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris
• Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis
• Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
• Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose
• Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music
• John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms
• William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, as Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640
• Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
• Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets

Other

• Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
• Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "", Poeticae institutiones, criticism

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch
• September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French
• Also:
• John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English
• James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet
• Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• c. February 7 – Barnabe Googe (born 1540), English pastoral poet and translator
• May 30 – Bálint Balassi (born 1554), Hungarian lyric poet
• August 15 (bur.) – Thomas Kyd (born 1558), English dramatist and poet
• November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla (born 1533), Spanish

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• English Madrigal School
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature
• University Wits

Notes