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| 1599 | Edmund Spenser, author of The Faerie Queene—an heroic work praising Protestantism and an ideal of chaste marriage—dies. The poet's brilliance will continue to produce many admirers and imitators during the early Stuart period. |
| 1605 | In Spain, Miguel de Cervantes finishes his masterpiece, the picaresque novel Don Quixote. |
| François de Malherbe is appointed court poet in France. His disciplined use of twelve-syllable Alexandrian verse will help to establish its popularity among seventeenth-century French writers. | |
| Shakespeare publishes his Sonnets in London, a collection of poetry that will continue to inspire writers for centuries to come. | |
| 1611 | In England, the Authorized Version of the Bible appears. Over the coming decades, the work will come to have a great impact on the development of the English language and its literature, and will become known affectionately as the "King James' Version" among English-speaking Protestants. |
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