1594 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592) Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592) Michael Drayton: Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596) Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall Robert Greene: Orlando Furioso, published anonymously See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, as Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640 Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French Also: John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: c.