1598 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
[edit]- Richard Barnfield:
- Nicholas Breton, A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love[1]
- Richard Carew, published anonymously, A Herrings Tale[1]
- George Chapman:
- Thomas Churchyard, A Wished Reformacion of Wicked Rebellion (expanded in 1611 as Queen Anna's New World of Words)[1]
- Everard Guilpin, published anonymously, Skialetheia. Or, A Shadow of Truth, in Certaine Epigrams or Satyres[1]
- Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, published posthumously and completed by George Chapman (who divided the poem into two sestiads and adding four more written by Chapman himself); described as "this unfinished Tragedy", yet possibly considered complete by Marlowe[1]
- John Marston:
- Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury, valued for its inclusion of a list of plays by Shakespeare and also a mention that Shakespeare's "sugar'd sonnets" are circulating privately; the second in the "Wits Series" (see also Ling, Politeuphuia 1597; Allot, Wits Theater 1599; Wrednot, Palladis Palatium 1604)[1]
- Francis Rous, Thule; or, Vertues Historie[1]
- Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, a corrected version of the poem which had originally appeared in a pirated version in 1593, although even this version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke; in the same volume appeared Astrophel and Stella, also originally published (posthumously) twice in 1593 (first from an unauthorized, corrupt text and in an unauthorized corrected version).[3] Sources differ on the publishing year of this edition, with The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature giving "circa 1597",[1] and other sources, including, Mona Wilson, stating this year.[3]
- Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and Lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed[4]
- Joshua Sylvester, The Second Weeke or Childhood of the World, the first part of Sylvester's translation of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas[1]
- Robert Tofte:
- Alba: The months minde of a melancholy lover[1]
- Orlando Inamorato, translated from Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato[1]
Other languages
[edit]- Jean de Sponde, Amours; publication year uncertain; France[5]
- Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy[6]
- Lope de Vega, Spain:
- La Arcadia
- La Dragontea, an epic poem about Sir Francis Drake[7]
Births
[edit]Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 12 – Guillaume Colletet (died 1659), French
- August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm (died 1672), Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet
- Also – Johann George Moeresius (died 1657), Polish poet and rector
Deaths
[edit]Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 9 – Jasper Heywood (died 1535) English Jesuit, poet and translator
- June 1 – Thomas Preston (born 1537), English poet and perhaps playwright, a master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
- August – Alexander Montgomerie (born 1550), Scottish Catholic courtier and poet
- Also – Henri Estienne (born 1528), French philologist, poet and humanist
See also
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- 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
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
- ^ a b Wilson, Mona, Sir Philip Sidney, London: Duckworth, 1931), 168–169
- ^ Matthews, David. "Speght, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/26098. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979