1591 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). February 25 – English Queen Elizabeth I awards Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life (see Spenser's Complaints, in "Works" section below) Nicholas Breton, Brittons Bowre of Delights Thomas Campion, Astrophel and Stella Michael Drayton, The Harmonie of the Church (republished 1610 under the title A Heavenly Harmonie) Abraham Fraunce: The Countesse of Pembrokes Emanuel The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch, Part 1 adapted from Torquato Tasso's Aminta; Part 2 a revision of Fraunce's translation of Amyntas 1587 by Thomas Watson; volume also includes translations of the second Bucolic of Virgil (first published in Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike) and of the opening of Heliodorus's Aethiopica (see also The Third Part 1592) Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso in English Heroical Verse, translated from the Italian of Ludovico Ariosto James VI of Scotland, Lepanto George Peele, Decensus Astraeae, a pageant for the lord mayor of London Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella published (posthumously) first this year from an unauthorized, corrupt text, with 107 sonnets and 10 songs by Sidney, with other verse by Samuel Daniel, Thomas Campion, Greville, Edward de Vere and others, as well as a preface by Thomas Nashe. The text, copied down by an employee of an associate of Sidney, had so many errors and misreadings that Sidney's friends secured all the unsold copies. The volume was then published again this year in a corrected edition, also unauthorized, with 94 sonnets by Sidney and none of the additional poems. (The poem was again published in about 1597, with at least one source, Mona Wilson, stating 1598. This version of the poem, now commonly used, appeared in the folio of the 1598 version of Sidney's Arcadia, although even that version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke.