Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 25 – English Queen
Elizabeth I awards
Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life[1] (see Spenser's Complaints, in "Works" section below)
The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch, Part 1 adapted from
Torquato Tasso's Aminta; Part 2 a revision of Fraunce's translation of Amyntas1587 by
Thomas Watson; volume also includes translations of the second Bucolic of
Virgil (first published in Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike) and of the opening of
Heliodorus's Aethiopica (see also The Third Part1592)[2]
George Peele, Decensus Astraeae, a pageant for the lord mayor of London[2]
Sir
Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella published (posthumously) first this year from an unauthorized, corrupt text, with 107 sonnets and 10 songs by Sidney, with other verse by
Samuel Daniel,
Thomas Campion, Greville,[2]Edward de Vere and others, as well as a preface by
Thomas Nashe. The text, copied down by an employee of an associate of Sidney, had so many errors and misreadings that Sidney's friends secured all the unsold copies.[4] The volume was then published again this year in a corrected edition, also unauthorized, with 94 sonnets by Sidney and none of the additional poems.[2] (The poem was again published in about
1597,[2] with at least one source, Mona Wilson, stating
1598.[4] This version of the poem, now commonly used, appeared in the folio of the 1598 version of Sidney's
Arcadia, although even that version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke.[4])
Complaints, including "The Ruines of Time"; "The Teares of the Muses"; "Virgils Gnat"; "Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberds Tale"; "Muiopotmos"; "Visions of the Words Vanitie";[2] the volume lampoons
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who had interceded with Queen
Elizabeth I to reduce the handsome pension she had originally promised Spenser (see "Events", above); although this volume was printed, it was suppressed (or "called in") almost immediately[5]
Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (although one source states this was the year of publication,[2] another states the work was first published in London in January
1592, according to one source[5])
Giordano Bruno,
Italian philosopher and poet writing in
Latin in a style imitating
Lucretius and expressing his philosophical, cosmological speculations in their final form; printed by John Wenchel in Frankfort,
Germany:
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance,
Irish or
France).
Events
February 25 – English Queen
Elizabeth I awards
Edmund Spenser a pension of 50 pounds per year for life[1] (see Spenser's Complaints, in "Works" section below)
The Countesse of Pembrokes Yvychurch, Part 1 adapted from
Torquato Tasso's Aminta; Part 2 a revision of Fraunce's translation of Amyntas1587 by
Thomas Watson; volume also includes translations of the second Bucolic of
Virgil (first published in Fraunce's The Lawiers Logike) and of the opening of
Heliodorus's Aethiopica (see also The Third Part1592)[2]
George Peele, Decensus Astraeae, a pageant for the lord mayor of London[2]
Sir
Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella published (posthumously) first this year from an unauthorized, corrupt text, with 107 sonnets and 10 songs by Sidney, with other verse by
Samuel Daniel,
Thomas Campion, Greville,[2]Edward de Vere and others, as well as a preface by
Thomas Nashe. The text, copied down by an employee of an associate of Sidney, had so many errors and misreadings that Sidney's friends secured all the unsold copies.[4] The volume was then published again this year in a corrected edition, also unauthorized, with 94 sonnets by Sidney and none of the additional poems.[2] (The poem was again published in about
1597,[2] with at least one source, Mona Wilson, stating
1598.[4] This version of the poem, now commonly used, appeared in the folio of the 1598 version of Sidney's
Arcadia, although even that version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke.[4])
Complaints, including "The Ruines of Time"; "The Teares of the Muses"; "Virgils Gnat"; "Prosopopoia; or, Mother Hubberds Tale"; "Muiopotmos"; "Visions of the Words Vanitie";[2] the volume lampoons
William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley, who had interceded with Queen
Elizabeth I to reduce the handsome pension she had originally promised Spenser (see "Events", above); although this volume was printed, it was suppressed (or "called in") almost immediately[5]
Daphnaïda. An Elegy upon the death of the noble and vertuous Douglas Howard, Daughter and heire of Henry Lord Howard, Viscount Byndon, and wife of Arthure Gorges Esquier (although one source states this was the year of publication,[2] another states the work was first published in London in January
1592, according to one source[5])
Giordano Bruno,
Italian philosopher and poet writing in
Latin in a style imitating
Lucretius and expressing his philosophical, cosmological speculations in their final form; printed by John Wenchel in Frankfort,
Germany: