1600 in poetry

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Great Britain

Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered (writing under the pen name "Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe")

Nicholas Breton:

Melancholike Humours

Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message (published anonymously)

Pasquils Mistresse; or, The Worthie and Unworthie Woman (published under the pen name "Salochin Treboun")

Pasquils Passe, and Passeth Not

The Second Part of Pasquils Mad-cap intituled: The Fooles-cap

Thomas Deloney (uncertain attribution), Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron

John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (First Booke, 1597; Third and Last Booke, 1603)

Edward Fairfax, translator (of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem

Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour

Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (posthumous)

Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester

Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece

Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute

John Norden, Vicissitudo Rerum: An elegaicall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world

Samuel Rowlands:

The Letting of Humors Bood in the Head-vaine

A Merry Meeting, ordered burned and no copy is now extant (republished under the title The Knave of Cubbes in 1612)

Thomas Weelkes' Canto

John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham

Anthologies in Great Britain

Robert Allott (initialed "R. A.", generally attributed to Allott), editor, Englands Parnassus; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons

John Bodenham (published anonymously, usually attributed to him, sometimes to Anthony Munday), editor, Bel-vedere; or, The Garden of the Muses, anthology

John Flasket, Englands Helicon, English anthology with poems by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others

Other

Siddha Basavaraja, Bedagina Vachanagalu, anthology, India

François de Malherbe, Ode à la reine sur sa bienvenue en France, recited at the reception given to Marie de Médicis in Aix; the poem attracted the attention of Henry IV of France, to whose court Malherbe is attached in 1605, France

Romancero general, anthology, Spain

Births

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

January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (died 1681), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist

November – John Ogilby (died 1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer

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Marin le Roy de Gomberville (died 1674), French poet and novelist

Piaras Feiritéar (hanged 1653), Irish

Richard Flecknoe (died 1678), English dramatist and poet

Petru Fudduni (died 1670), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian

Johannes Plavius (died unknown), German poet

Daulat Qazi (died 1638), medieval Bengali poet

Deaths

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April – Thomas Deloney (born 1543), English novelist and balladist

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Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (born 1533), Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer

Bâkî باقى pen name Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known as Sultânüş-şuarâ سلطان الشعرا ("Sultan of poets"; born 1526), Turkish poet, called one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature

Cyprian Bazylik (born 1535), Polish composer, poet, printer and writer

Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (born 1550), Irish poet of the Mac Aodhagáin clan

References

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