1579 in poetry
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Events
- January 28 - Burmese poets Nawrahta Minsaw and Hsinbyushin Medaw become king and queen consort of Lanna
- Italian poet Torquato Tasso is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna in Ferrara as insane; he remains here until 1586.
Works published
Great Britain
- Thomas Churchyard, A lamentable and pitifull Description of the Template:Not a typo warres in Flanders, including two poems (see also his The Miserie of Flaunders, Calamite of Fraunce, Misfortune of Portugall, Unquietnes of Ireland, Troubles of Scotlande: and the Blessed State of Englande 1579)[1]
- Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, or Principall Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates[1]
- Edmund Spenser, writing as "Immerto", The Shepheardes Calender, many editions[1]
Other
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[2]
- Catherine Des Roches, also known as "Catherine Fradonnet", Oeuvres, Paris: Abel L'Angelier published this year and in 1578, France
- Giovanni Viperano, De poetica libri tres, Antwerp (criticism)[3]
Births
- March 24 – Tirso de Molina (died 1648), Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet
- August 1 – Luis Vélez de Guevara (died 1644), Spanish dramatist, poet and novelist
- September 16 – Samuel Coster (died 1665), Dutch playwright and poet
- December 20 (bapt.) – John Fletcher (died 1625), English playwright and poet
- Arthur Johnston (died 1641), Scottish poet and physician
- Rhys Prichard (died 1644), Welsh language poet and Anglican vicar
Deaths
- September 28 – Márton Rakovszky (born 1535), Slovak poet and scholar
- November 21 – Cipriano Piccolpasso (born 1524), Italian poet and author
See also
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- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
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- ↑ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Template:ISBN
- ↑ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), Template:ISBN, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
- ↑ Moss, Ann, "Theories of Poetry: Latin writers", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 105, Cambridge University Press, 1999,Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
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