1594 in poetry

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England

 * Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard
 * Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta
 * George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek
 * Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592)
 * Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592)
 * Michael Drayton:
 * Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets
 * Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596)
 * Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall
 * Robert Greene:
 * Orlando Furioso, published anonymously
 * See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
 * Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris
 * Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis
 * Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
 * Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose
 * Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music
 * John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms
 * William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, as Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640
 * Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
 * Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets

Other

 * Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
 * Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch
 * September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French
 * Also:
 * John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English
 * James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet
 * Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * c. February 7 – Barnabe Googe (born 1540), English pastoral poet and translator
 * May 30 – Bálint Balassi (born 1554), Hungarian lyric poet
 * August 15 (bur.) – Thomas Kyd (born 1558), English dramatist and poet
 * November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla (born 1533), Spanish