1586 in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1586. Events September 19 – The English poet Chidiock Tichborne, imprisoned in the Tower of London on the eve of being hanged, drawn and quartered for his part in the Babington Plot, writes his Elegy ("My prime of youth is but a frost of cares"). September 22 – The English poet, critic, courtier and soldier Sir Philip Sidney is fatally wounded at the Battle of Zutphen. unknown dates Francis Bacon takes a new seat as MP in the Parliament of England, that of Taunton. Oxford University Press is recognised in a decree of the Star Chamber in England. New books Prose Caesar Baronius – Roman martyrology (new edition) William Camden – Britannia (in Latin) Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert – Zedekunst (Art of Ethics) Angel Day – The English Secretary Robert Greene – Morando, the Tritameron of Love (part 2) John Knox – Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun within the Realms of Scotland John Lyly – Pappe with an hatchet, alias a figge for my Godsonne Jerónimo Osório – De rebus Emmanuelis George Puttenham (attributed) – The Arte of English Poesie Luis Barahona de Soto – Primera parte de la Angélica George Whetstone – English Myrror