1595 in poetry

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Great Britain

 * Anonymous, The Fissher-Mans Tale [sic], verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588
 * William Alabaster, Roxana, tragædia (approximate date)
 * Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets [sic]
 * Richard Barnfield, Cynthia
 * Nicholas Breton, Marie Magdalens Love; A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love [sic]
 * Thomas Campion, Poemata
 * George Chapman, published anonymously, Ovids Banquet of Sence [sic], 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 [sic]
 * Samuel Daniel, The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Warres Betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke [sic] (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also Poeticall Essayes [sic] 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and Civile Warres [sic] 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)
 * Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris, Narcissus
 * Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen [sic], 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 [sic], includes "Astrophel: A pastorall elegie upon the death of Sidney" [sic], 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