Overview of the events of 1596 in poetry
From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition
— From Sir John Harington , A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax [ 1]
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Works published in English [ edit ]
Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth , a ballad[ 2]
Thomas Campion , Poemata
Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars [ 2]
Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible [ 2]
Peter Colse , Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions [ 2]
Anthony Copley , A Fig for Fortune [ 2]
Roger Cotton :
An Armour of Proofe: Brought from the tower of David, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth [ 2]
A Spirituall Song: Conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, until the present time [ 2]
Sir John Davies , published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing [ 2]
John Dickenson , The Shepheardes Complaint [ 2]
Michael Drayton :
Mortimeriados ,[ 2] a long poem on the Wars of the Roses , in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603 )[ 2]
The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston [ 2]
Bartholomew Griffin , Fidessa , a sequence of sonnets
Sir John Harington , A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (also known by the shorter title Metamorphosis of Ajax ), a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court[ 1]
Gervase Markham , The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse [ 2]
Christopher Middleton , The Historie of Heaven [ 2]
William Smith , Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard [ 2]
Edmund Spenser :
William Warner , Albions England , fourth edition (12 books); see also Albions England 1586 , second edition 1589 , third edition 1592 , fifth edition 1602 , A Continuance of Albions England 1606 [ 2]
Works published in other languages [ edit ]
^ a b Trager, James, The People's Chronology , New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
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