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 thewofullwarres 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

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

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN   0-19-860634-6
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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
3. 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