1596 in poetry

Events

Works published in English

• Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad
• Thomas Campion, Poemata
• Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
• Henoch Clapham,
• Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
• Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune
• Roger Cotton:
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• Sir John Davies, published anonymously,
• John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint
• Michael Drayton:
• * Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima
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• Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
• Sir John Harington,, a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
• Gervase Markham,
• Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven
• William Smith,
• Edmund Spenser:
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• * Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
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• * The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books
• William Warner,, fourth edition ; see also 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, 1606

  Works published in other languages

• Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
• Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética , Spanish criticism

  Births

• September 4 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer
• September - James Shirley, English poet and playwright
• Xiao Yuncong, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

  Deaths

• October 3 - Florent Chrestien, French satirist and Latin poet
• Bargeo, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Georg List, German
• Henry Willobie, English