1596 in poetry
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— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax[1]
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Events
Works published in English
- Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad[2]
- Thomas Campion, Poemata
- Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars[2]
- Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible[2]
- Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions[2]
- Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune[2]
- Roger Cotton:
- An Armour of Proofe: Brought from the tower of David, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth[2]
- A Spirituall Song: Conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, until the present time[2]
- Sir John Davies, published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing[2]
- John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint[2]
- Michael Drayton:
- Mortimeriados,[2] a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)[2]
- The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston[2]
- 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[1]
- Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse[2]
- Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven[2]
- William Smith, Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard[2]
- Edmund Spenser:
- 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[2]
Works published in other languages
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See also
Notes
- ^ a b Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
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