Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events John Donne secretly weds Ann More, niece of Sir Thomas Egerton
Works
Great Britain Nicholas Breton, A Divine PoemeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Robert Chester, Loues martyr: or, Rosalins complaint Henoch Clapham, Aelohim-triune Robert Jones: The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Foure Parts The Second Booke of Songes and Ayres Gervase Markham, Marie Magdalens Lamentations for the Losse of her Master Jesus Thomas Morley: First Booke of Ayres The Triumphes of Oriana William Shakespeare, The Phoenix and the Turtle published in Robert Chester's Loves Martyr John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham
Other Jean Bertaut, Recueil des oeuvres poetiques ("Collection of Poetic Works"), France"Jean de Caen Bertaut" online article, Encyclopædia Britannica, retrieved June 25, 2009
Births August 22 – Georges de Scudéry (died 1667), French novelist, dramatist and poet; elder brother of Madeleine de Scudéry Also: John Earle born about this year (died 1665), English bishop, writer and poet Antonio Enríquez Gómez (died 1661), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist Saib Tabrizi (died 1677), Persian, master of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry known as ghazel
Deaths April 10 – Mark Alexander Boyd (born 1562), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune By May – Geoffrey Whitney (born 1548), English poet August 4 – Edward Grant (born 1548), English scholar, poet and headmaster of Westminster School Late – Daniel Hermann (born c. 1543) Polish–Lithuanian diplomat and Neo-Latin poet About this year – Thomas Nashe (born 1567), English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
See also 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature University Wits
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