Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published Great Britain Anonymous, , verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588 William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date) Barnabe Barnes, Richard Barnfield, Cynthia Nicholas Breton, Thomas Campion, Poemata George Chapman, published anonymously, , allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna Thomas Churchyard, Samuel Daniel, (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books) Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus Stephen Gosson, , published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives Tale (play) printed Francis Sabie, The Fisher-mans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, English criticism (written between 1580–1583; published for the first time posthumously) Saint Robert Southwell: Moeniae Saint Peters Complaint, with Other Poemes, published anonymously; three editions this year; it is possible there were several manuscripts in circulation before the first printed edition appeared (see also S. Peters Complaint 1616) Edmund Spenser: Amoretti and Epithalamion , includes , and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others Other Luís de Camões, Rimas, Portugal Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: December 4 – Jean Chapelain (died 1674), French poet and writer Also: Thomas Carew (died 1640), English poet Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (died 1676), French poet and playwright Bihari Lal (died 1663), Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses) Francesco Pona (died 1655), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (died 1640), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet Robert Sempill the younger (died c.1663), Scottish poet Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 21 – Saint Robert Southwell (born c. 1561), English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor March 18 – Jean de Sponde (born 1557), French poet, writer, translator and humanist April 25 – Torquato Tasso (born 1544), Italian May 25 – Valens Acidalius (born 1567), German, Latin-language poet and critic October 15 – Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of