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— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax

Contents

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

Works published in English

  • Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad
  • Thomas Campion, Poemata
  • Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
  • Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible
  • Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
  • Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune
  • Roger Cotton:
  • An Armour of Proofe: Brought from the tower of David, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth
  • A Spirituall Song: Conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, until the present time
  • Sir John Davies, published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing
  • John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint
  • Michael Drayton:
  • Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)
  • The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston
  • Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
  • Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (also known by the shorter title Metamorphosis of Ajax), a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
  • Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse
  • Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven
  • William Smith, Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard
  • Edmund Spenser:
  • Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
  • Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
  • Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset
  • The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1–3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609)
  • William Warner, Albions England, fourth edition (12 books); see also Albions England 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, A Continuance of Albions England 1606

    • Works published in other languages

  • Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
  • Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism

    • Births

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

  • September 4 – Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer
  • September – James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright
  • Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

    • Deaths

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

  • October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet
  • Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Georg List (born 1532), German
  • Henry Willobie (born 1575), English

    • References

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