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1587 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Events

  • Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France
  • French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.

    • Great Britain

  • Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse
  • Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot
  • George Gascoigne, The Whole Woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre, posthumously published (see also A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 1573, The Posies of George Gascoigne 1575)
  • George Turberville, Tragicall Tales, translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron
  • George Whetstone, Sir Philip Sidney, his Honourable Life, his Valiant Death, and his True Vertues, in verse (see "Deaths" section)

    • Other

  • François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France
  • Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
  • Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

    • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • September 18 – Francesca Caccini (died 1641), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
  • October 18 – Lady Mary Wroth (died c. 1651), English poet
  • November 17 – Joost van den Vondel (died 1679), Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
  • Also:
  • Francis Kynaston (died 1642), English courtier, poet and translator
  • Yun Seon-do (died 1671), Korean poet and government official

    • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • November – Madeleine Des Roches (born c. 1520) and her daughter, Catherine Des Roches (born 1542), both died of an epidemic on the same day; together they collectively published French prose and poetry; the two hosted a literary circle which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
  • date not known – George Whetstone died about this year (born c. 1544), English playwright, poet and author (see "Works published" section)

    • References

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