1584 in poetry
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Events
Works published
- 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
- 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
- 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
- ^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ^ 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
- ^ Web page titled "Bibliographie de Louise Labé", retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications