1593 in poetry

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

Works published

 * 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 * Henry Constable, , written but unpublished at this time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, 
 * 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

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 3 – George Herbert (died 1633), Welsh poet, orator and priest
 * June 24 – Abraham von Franckenberg (died 1652), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
 * Also:
 * Barten Holyday (died 1661), English clergyman, author and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 12 – Amadis Jamyn (born 1538), French poet
 * August 19 – Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
 * May 30 – Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; killed at Deptford
 * Also:
 * Jeong Cheol, who wrote under the pen names "Gyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
 * Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
 * Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet and philosopher
 * Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
 * Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist