1588 in poetry explained

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Events

• May - December  - Lope de Vega serves in the Spanish Armada, where he begins writing his epic poem La Hermosura de Angélica.
• Christopher Marlowe writes 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

• June 11  - George Wither (died 1667), English poet and satirist
• Guillaume Bautru (died 1665), French satirical poet and a founder member of the Académie française
• Richard Brathwait (died 1673), English poet
• Leonard Digges (died 1635), English translator and poet
• Josua Stegmann (died 1632), German poet

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
• Louis Bellaud (born 1543), French Occitan language writer and poet

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

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,