1584 in poetry

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Works published

France

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du monde, unfinished. ^[1]
• Pierre de Ronsard, the collective in-folio edition of his works ^[2]
• Honoré d'Urfé, La Sireine

Great Britain

• Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries ^[3]
• King James VI, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie ^[4]
• Anthony Munday, I Serve a Mistress
• Thomas Phaer, The Thirteen Books of Aeneidos, Boox 10–12 translated by Thomas Twyne; Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio (see also The Seven First Bookes 1558, The Nyne First Bookes 1562, The Whole Twelve Bookes 1573) ^[4]
• Clement Robinson "and Divers Others", A Handful of Pleasant Delights

Other

• Jan Kochanowski, Fraszki ("Trifles"), Poland ^[5]

Births

• February 12 – Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle (died 1648), Dutch
• September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin (died 1653), German
• Also:
  • Francis Beaumont (died 1616), English playwright and poet
  • Anna Ovena Hoyer born (died 1655), German
  • Anna Visscher (died 1651), Dutch artist, poet, and translator
  • Georg Rodolf Weckherlin born (died 1653), German
  • Diederich von dem Werder born (died 1657), German

Deaths

• March 10 – Thomas Norton (born 1532), politician and poet
• August 22 – Jan Kochanowski (born 1530), Pole who published poetry in Polish and Latin
• Also:
  • Johann Beltz (born 1529), German
  • Lucas de Heere (born 1534), Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
  • Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (born 1529), French jurist and poet
  • Sur, died sometime from 1581 to this year (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect
  • 1584/1585/1586: Ulpian Fulwell (born 1545/1546), English Renaissance theatre playwright, satirist and poet

See also

• Poetry portal

• 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. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN   0-19-866125-8
2. 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, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
3. Web page titled "Bibliographie de Louise Labé", retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.
4. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications