1588 in poetry
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Events
- Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1589 (first published 1599)
Works published
Great Britain
- William Byrd, editor, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, anthology of verse set to music[1]
- Thomas Churchyard, The Worthines of Wales, prose and poetry[1]
- Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry, translated from the French of Jacques Amyot[1]
Other
- Jean de Sponde, Essai de poemès chrétiens, published with a collection of prose meditations on four Psalms; France[2]
Births
- Guillaume Bautru (died 1665), French satirical poet and one of the founder members of the Académie française
- Richard Braithwaite (died 1673), English
- Leonard Digges (died 1635), English poet and translator
- Josua Stegmann (died 1632), German
- Michael Weisse (died 1634), German
- George Wither (died 1667), English poet and satirist
Deaths
- June 18 – Robert Crowley (born 1517), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
- November 1 – Jean Daurat also spelled "Jean Dorat"; Latin name: "Auratus" (born 1508), French poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade
- Also:
- Louis Bellaud (born 1543), French
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- English Madrigal School
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
- University Wits
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