1587 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1587 in poetry

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Events

Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France^[1]
French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.^[2]

Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse^[3]
Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot^[3]
George Gascoigne, The Whole Woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre, posthumously published (see also A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 1573, The Posies of George Gascoigne 1575)^[3]
George Turberville, Tragicall Tales, translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron^[3]
George Whetstone, Sir Philip Sidney, his Honourable Life, his Valiant Death, and his True Vertues, in verse (see "Deaths" section)^[3]

François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France^[4]
Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

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

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

February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1542), deposed queen regnant and occasional French-language poet, executed
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)

^ 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, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
^ 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, "Guillaume Du Bartas" p 169
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ France, Peter, ed. (1993). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

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