# 1595 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

## Works published
### Great Britain

* Anonymous, The Fissher-Mans Tale, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588
* William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
* Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets
* Richard Barnfield, Cynthia
* Nicholas Breton, Marie Magdalens Love; A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love
* Thomas Campion, Poemata
* George Chapman, published anonymously, Ovids Banquet of Sence, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna
* Thomas Churchyard, A Musicall Consort of Heavenly Harmonie (Compounded Out of Manie Parts of Musicke) Called Churchyyards Charitie
* Samuel Daniel, The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Warres Betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also Poeticall Essayes 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and Civile Warres 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)
* Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus
* Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen, 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
** Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, includes "Astrophel: A pastorall elegie upon the death of Sidney", 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 the Emperor Akbar
* November 5 – Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
* Also:
** Meurig Dafydd (born c. 1510), Welsh bard
** Thomas Edwards (born unknown), English author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus