1577 in poetry

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Events

• December 4 – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes) is imprisoned in Toledo, Spain. During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle (Cántico Espiritual).[1]

Works published

Great Britain

• Nicholas Breton:
  • The Works of a Young Wit[2]
  • A Flourish upon Fancy[2]
• John Grange, The Golden Aphroditis, poetry and prose[2]

Other

• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[3]
• Guillaume Du Bartas, La Semaine, ou Création du Monde, France[4]

Births

• March – George Sandys (died 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet
• November 10 – Jacob Cats (died 1660), Dutch poet

Deaths

• March 6 – Rémy Belleau (born 1528), French poet and member of La Pléiade
• April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco (born c. 1524), Italian poet and musician
• August 12 – Sir Thomas Smith (born 1513), English scholar, diplomat and poet
• October 7 – George Gascoigne (born c. 1535), English poet who died while a guest at George Whetstone's family manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire; Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy.
• Also:
  • Annibale Cruceio (born 1509), Italian, Latin-language poet[5]

See also

• 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

1. Chevalier, Dom Philippe (October–December 1922). "Le Cantique spirituel de saint Jean de la Croix: a-t-il été interpolé?". Bulletin Hispanique (in French): 307–342.
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. 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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
4. 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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Guillaume Du Bartas" p 169
5. Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.