1596 in poetry

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> 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

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* 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:
* Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
* Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
* Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset[2]
* The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1-3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609)[2]
* 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

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* Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
* Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética  ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism[3]

## Births

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* September 4 - Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer
* September - James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright
* Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

## Deaths

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* October 3 - Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet
* Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
* Georg List (born 1532), German
* Henry Willobie (born 1575), English
* Ou Daren (born 1516), Ming dynasty poet and scholar

## See also

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* Poetry portal

* Poetry
* 16th century in poetry
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* Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
* Elizabethan literature
* English Madrigal School
* French Renaissance literature
* Renaissance literature
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## Notes

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1. ^ a b Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
2. ^ 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
3. ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. ^ 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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