This article covers 1595 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
- 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
- Stephen Gosson, , published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
- Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires
- Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
- Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices
- George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives' Tale (play) printed
- Francis Sabie, The Fisher-mans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight
- Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, English criticism (written between 1580âÂÂ1583; published for the first time posthumously)
- Saint Robert Southwell:
- Moeniae
- Saint Peters Complaint, with Other Poemes, published anonymously; three editions this year; it is possible there were several manuscripts in circulation before the first printed edition appeared (see also S. Peters Complaint 1616)
- Edmund Spenser:
- Amoretti and Epithalamion
- , includes , and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- December 4 – Jean Chapelain (died 1674), French poet and writer
- Also:
- Thomas Carew (died 1640), English poet
- Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (died 1676), French poet and playwright
- Bihari Lal (died 1663), Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaë (Seven Hundred Verses)
- Francesco Pona (died 1655), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer
- Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (died 1640), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
- Robert Sempill the younger (died c.1663), Scottish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 21 – Saint Robert Southwell (born c. 1561), English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor
- March 18 – Jean de Sponde (born 1557), French poet, writer, translator and humanist
- April 25 – Torquato Tasso (born 1544), Italian
- May 25 – Valens Acidalius (born 1567), German, Latin-language poet and critic
- October 15 – Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
- November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
- Also:
- Meurig Dafydd (born c. 1510), Welsh bard
- Thomas Edwards (born unknown), English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus
See also
Notes