1600_in_poetry
1600 in poetry
Overview of the events of 1600 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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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")[1]
- Nicholas Breton:
- Thomas Deloney (uncertain attribution), Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron[1]
- John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (First Booke, 1597; Third and Last Booke, 1603)[1]
- Edward Fairfax, translator (of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem[1]
- Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour[1]
- Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (posthumous)
- Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester[1]
- Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece[1]
- Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute[1]
- John Norden, Vicissitudo Rerum: An elegaicall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world[1]
- Samuel Rowlands:
- 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[1]
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[1]
- 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[2]
- Romancero general, anthology, Spain[3]
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
- Also:
- 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
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April – Thomas Deloney (born 1543), English novelist and balladist
- Also:
- 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
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 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