1580 In Poetry

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Events

Works published

Great Britain

* Anonymous, ''The Buik of Alexander'', publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the Middle AgesCox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004,
* George Buchanan, ''Paraphrasis psalmorum Davidis'', in Latin
* Thomas Churchyard, ''A Pleasaunte Laborinth Called Churchyardes Chance''
* Humphrey Gifford, ''A Poste of Gilloflowrs'', prose and poetry; Part 1 translated from Italian and French; Part 2 in verse
* Anthony Munday, ''The Paine of Pleasure''

Other

* Fernando de Herrera, ''Anotaciones'', criticism, SpainPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
* Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; FranceWeinberg, 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), , "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
* Jan Kochanowski, ''Laments (Treny)'' ("Thredonies"), Poland
* Torquato Tasso, ''Jerusalem Delivered'' (''La Gerusalemme liberata''), 14 cantos in pirated edition, Italy

Births

* April 18 – Thomas Middleton, English (died 1627) English playwright and poet
* June 9 – Daniël Heinsius (died 1655), Dutch scholar writing Latin and Dutch poetry
* September 14 – Francisco de Quevedo (died 1645), nobleman, politician and one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age
* October 12 – Hortensio Félix Paravicino (died 1633), Spanish preacher and poet
* November 9 – Johannes Narssius (died 1637), Dutch-born New Latin poet, physician and Remonstrant minister
* Also:
** Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig (died 1652), Irish Gaelic scholar and poet
** Thomas Ford (died 1648), English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
** Francisco Rodrigues Lobo (died 1621), Portuguese poet and bucolic writer
** Daniel Pribiš (died 1645), Slovak
** Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, born about this year (died 1622), Portuguese
** John Webster (died 1634), English Jacobean dramatist and poet

Deaths

* June 10 – Luís de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as "Luis de Camoens", died (born about 1524), perhaps the most highly regarded Portuguese poet
* June 22 – Hernando de Acuna died (born c. 1520), Spanish
* Also:
** Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (born 1500), Greek kabbalist and poet
** Wu Cheng'en died 1580 or 1582 (born 1500 or 1505), Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty
** Robin Clidro (born 1545), Welsh language poet and itinerant poet
** Sebastián de Horozco (born 1510), Spanish poet and playwright
** Thomas Tusser (born 1524), English

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

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