1598 in poetry

Events

Works published

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• Richard Barnfield:
• * The Encomium of Lady Pecunia; or, The Praise of Money
• * Poems in Divers Humours
• Nicholas Breton, A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love
• Richard Carew, published anonymously, A Herrings Tale
• George Chapman:
• * Seven Bookes of the Iliades of Homere, Prince of Poets, contains books 1-2, 7-9
• * Achilles Shield
• Thomas Churchyard, A Wished Reformacion of Wicked Rebellion
• Everard Guilpin, published anonymously, Skialetheia. Or, A Shadow of Truth, in Certaine Epigrams or Satyres
• Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, published posthumously and completed by George Chapman ; described as "this unfinished Tragedy", yet possibly considered complete by Marlowe
• John Marston:
• * The Metamorphosis of Pigmalians Image
• * The Scourge of Villanie, published under the pen name "William Kinsayder"
• Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury, valued for its inclusion of a list of plays by Shakespeare; the second in the "Wits Series"
• Francis Rous, Thule; or, Vertues Historie
• 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 twice in 1593. Sources differ on the publishing year of this edition, with The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature giving "circa 1597", and other sources, including, Mona Wilson, stating this year.
• Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and Lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
• Joshua Sylvester, The Second Weeke or Childhood of the World, the first part of Sylvester's translation of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
• Robert Tofte:
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• * Orlando Inamorato, translated from Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato

  Other languages

• Jean de Sponde, Amours; publication year uncertain; France
• Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
• Lope de Vega, Spain:
• * La Arcadia
• * La Dragontea, an epic poem about Sir Francis Drake

  Births

• March 12 - Guillaume Colletet, French
• August 7 - Georg Stiernhielm, Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet
• Also - Johann George Moeresius, Polish poet and rector

  Deaths

• January 9 - Jasper Heywood English Jesuit, poet and translator
• June 1 - Thomas Preston, English poet and perhaps playwright, a master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
• August - Alexander Montgomerie, Scottish Catholic courtier and poet
• Also - Henri Estienne, French philologist, poet and humanist