1598 in poetry explained
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Works published
- The Encomium of Lady Pecunia; or, The Praise of Money[1]
- Poems in Divers Humours[2]
- Nicholas Breton, A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love[1]
- Richard Carew, published anonymously, A Herrings Tale[1]
- George Chapman:
- Seven Bookes of the Iliades of Homere, Prince of Poets, contains books 1 - 2, 7 - 9 (see also Achilles Shield 1598, Homer Prince of Poets 1609, The Iliads of Homer 1611, Homers Odysses 1614, Twenty-four Bookes of Homers Odisses 1615, The Whole Workes of Homer 1616)[1]
- Achilles Shield[1]
- Thomas Churchyard, A Wished Reformacion of Wicked Rebellion (expanded in 1611 as Queen Anna's New World of Words)[1]
- Everard Guilpin, published anonymously, Skialetheia. Or, A Shadow of Truth, in Certaine Epigrams or Satyres[1]
- Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, published posthumously and completed by George Chapman (who divided the poem into two sestiads and adding four more written by Chapman himself); described as "this unfinished Tragedy", yet possibly considered complete by Marlowe[1]
- John Marston:
- The Metamorphosis of Pigmalians Image[1]
- The Scourge of Villanie, published under the pen name "William Kinsayder"[1]
- Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury, valued for its inclusion of a list of plays by Shakespeare and also a mention that Shakespeare's "sugar'd sonnets" are circulating privately; the second in the "Wits Series" (see also Ling, Politeuphuia 1597; Allot, Wits Theater 1599; Wrednot, Palladis Palatium 1604)[1]
- Francis Rous, Thule; or, Vertues Historie[1]
- 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 (posthumously) twice in 1593 (first from an unauthorized, corrupt text and in an unauthorized corrected version).[3] Sources differ on the publishing year of this edition, with The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature giving "circa 1597",[1] and other sources, including, Mona Wilson, stating this year.[3]
- Thomas Speght, The Workes of our Antient and Lerned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed[4]
- Joshua Sylvester, The Second Weeke or Childhood of the World, the first part of Sylvester's translation of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas[1]
- Robert Tofte:
Other languages
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See also
Notes and References
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- [Edward Lucie-Smith|Lucie-Smith, Edward]
- Wilson, Mona, Sir Philip Sidney, London: Duckworth, 1931), 168 - 169
- 26098. David. Matthews. Speght, Thomas.
- France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979