This article covers 1596 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of AjaxTrager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979

Works published in English Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a balladCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 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:

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 (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)

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:

Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591

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) William Warner, , fourth edition (12 books); 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 ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticismPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

Births 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 October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poetWeb page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. 2009-05-27. Georg List (born 1532), German Henry Willobie (born 1575), English Ou Daren (born 1516), Ming dynasty poet and scholar

See also

Poetry 16th century in poetry 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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