page_title: 1593 in poetry
section_title: Works published
hierarchical_section_title: 1593 in poetry / Works published
caption_attribution_description: First quarto of Venus and Adonis (1593)
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume
  Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes
  Anthony Chute, Beauty Dishonoured, written under the title of Shore's Wife
  Henry Constable, Spirituall sonnettes, to the honour of God: and hys saintes, written but unpublished at this time
  Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs
  Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love
  Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532
  Thomas Lodge, Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights
  Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)
  Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)
  George Peele, The Honour of the Garter
  William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)
  Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy
caption: Title page of the first quarto edition of Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis, published this year
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