16th Century in Literature - New Poetry

New Poetry

1514

• • The Aeneid -Francesco Maria Molzo's translation into Italian, in consecutive unrhymed verse (forerunner of Blank verse)

1550

• • Sir Thomas Wyatt - Pentential Psalms

1557

• • Giovanni Battista Giraldi - Ercole
  • Tottel's Miscellany

1562

• • The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet - Arthur Brooke

1563

• • Barnabe Googe - Eclogues, Epitaphs, and Sonnets

1567

• • George Turberville - Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets

1572

• • Luís de Camões - Os Lusíadas

1573

• • George Gascoigne - A Hundred Sundry Flowers

1575

• • Nicholas Breton - A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers
  • George Gascoigne - The Posies

1576

• • The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies

1577

• • Nicholas Breton - The Works of a Young Wit and A Flourish upon Fancy

1579

• • Edmund Spenser - The Shepherd's Calendar

1582

• • Thomas Watson - Hekatompathia or Passionate Century of Love

1590

• • Sir Philip Sidney - Arcadia
  • Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-3

1591

• • Sir Philip Sidney - Astrophel and Stella (published posthumously)

1592

• • Henry Constable - Diana

1593

• Michael Drayton - The Shepherd's Garland
  • Giles Fletcher, the Elder - Licia

1594

• • Michael Drayton - Peirs Gaveston

1595

• • Thomas Campion - *Poemata

1596

• • Sir John Davies - Orchestra, or a Poeme of Dauncing
  • Michael Drayton - The Civell Warres of Edward the Second and the Barrons
  • Edmund Spenser - The Faerie Queene, Books 1-6

1597

• • Michael Drayton - Englands Heroicall Epistles

1598

• • Lope de Vega
    • La Arcadia
    • La Dragontea

1599

• • Sir John Davies
    • Hymnes of Astraea
    • Nosce Teipsum
  • George Peele - The Love of King David and Faire Bethsabe