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Overview of the events of 1596 in poetry
From your confessor, lawyer and physician,
Hide not your case on no condition
— From Sir
John Harington , A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax
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Works published in English
Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth , a ballad
[2]
Thomas Campion , Poemata
Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
[2]
Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible
[2]
Peter Colse , Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
[2]
Anthony Copley ,
A Fig for Fortune
[2]
Roger Cotton :
An Armour of Proofe: Brought from the tower of David, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth
[2]
A Spirituall Song: Conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, until the present time
[2]
Sir John Davies , published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing
[2]
John Dickenson , The Shepheardes Complaint
[2]
Michael Drayton :
Mortimeriados ,
[2] a long poem on the
Wars of the Roses , in
ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars
1603 )
[2]
The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston
[2]
Bartholomew Griffin , Fidessa , a sequence of sonnets
Sir
John Harington , A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (also known by the shorter title Metamorphosis of Ajax ), a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
[1]
Gervase Markham , The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse
[2]
Christopher Middleton , The Historie of Heaven
[2]
William Smith , Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard
[2]
Edmund Spenser :
William Warner , Albions England , fourth edition (12 books); see also Albions England
1586 , second edition
1589 , third edition
1592 , fifth edition
1602 , A Continuance of Albions England
1606
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Works published in other languages
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r Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature , Oxford University Press, 2004,
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^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics , 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Web page titled
"Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009.
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