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 wofull 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
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See also
Notes
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- 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
- 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,ISBN 0-521-30008-8, ISBN 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
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