1579 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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 ' 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)

Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, or Principall Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates

Edmund Spenser, writing as "Immerto", The Shepheardes Calender, many editions

Other

Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France

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)

Births

March 24 – Tirso de Molina (died 1648), Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet

August 1 – Luis VÃÂ©lez 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 – MÃÂ¡rton Rakovszky (born 1535), Slovak poet and scholar

November 21 – Cipriano Piccolpasso (born 1524), Italian poet and author

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