1580 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Anonymous, The Buik of Alexander, publication year uncertain, written in Middle Scots in 1438; erroneously attributed to John Barbour, a close translation of two French original works from the Middle Ages
• George Buchanan, Paraphrasis psalmorum Davidis, in Latin
• Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasaunte Laborinth Called Churchyardes Chance
• Humphrey Gifford, A Poste of Gilloflowrs, prose and poetry; Part 1 translated from Italian and French; Part 2 in verse
• Anthony Munday, The Paine of Pleasure

  Other

• Fernando de Herrera, Anotaciones, criticism, Spain
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
• Jan Kochanowski, Laments , Poland
• Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered, 14 cantos in pirated edition, Italy

  Births

• April 18 - Thomas Middleton, English English playwright and poet
• September 14 - Francisco de Quevedo, nobleman, politician and one of the most prominent Spanish poets of the age
• Also:
• * Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig, Irish Gaelic scholar and poet
• * Thomas Ford, English composer, lutenist, viol player and poet
• * Daniel Heinsius, scholar who wrote Latin and Dutch poetry
• * Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Portuguese poet and bucolic writer
• * Hortensio Félix Paravicino, Spanish preacher and poet
• * Daniel Pribiš, Slovak
• * Francisco Rodrigues Lobo born about this year, Portuguese
• * Mathew Roydon, English poet associated with the School of Night group of poets and writers
• * John Webster, English Jacobean dramatist and poet

  Deaths

• June 10 - Luís de Camões, sometimes rendered in English as "Luis de Camoens", died, perhaps the most highly regarded Portuguese poet
• June 22 - Hernando de Acuna died, Spanish
• Also:
• * Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz, Greek kabbalist and poet
• * Wu Cheng'en died 1580 or 1582, Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty
• * Robin Clidro, Welsh language poet and itinerant poet
• * Sebastián de Horozco, Spanish poet and playwright
• * Thomas Tusser, English