1581 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is first published complete, a pirated edition printed in Parma being followed by an authorized edition from Ferrara, where the poet is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna.[1] Also this year, Aldus Manutius the Younger prints a selection of Tasso's lyrics and prose in Venice.

Works published

Great Britain

• Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the author[2]
• Sir Philip SIdney, An Apology for Poetry

Other

• Marie de Romieu, Premières Œuvres poetiques de MaDamoiselle Marie de Romieu Vivaroise, France
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[3]
• Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata), Italy[4]

Births

• March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (died 1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
• Also:
  • Henry Adamson (died 1637), Scottish poet and historian
  • Hieronim Morsztyn (died 1623), Polish poet
  • Sir Thomas Overbury (murdered 1613), English poet and essayist
  • Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (died 1627), English countess, minor poet and major patron of poets

Deaths

• Hywel ap Syr Mathew (born unknown), Welsh poet, genealogist and soldier
• Paul Speratus died (born 1484), German
• Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski died (born c. 1550), Polish
• Surdas, died sometime from this year to 1584 (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect

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
• University Wits

Notes

1. Oxford World's Classics ed.
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. Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.