1589 in poetry

Events

• Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1588

  Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, verse and music
• Thomas Deloney, A New Ballet of the Straunge and Most Cruell Whippes which the Spanyards Had Prepared to Whippe and Torment English Men and Women, a ballad
• Anne Dowriche, The French Historie
• Anthony Munday, A Banquet of Daintie Conceits
• George Puttenham, authorship uncertain, Arte of English Poesie, the first draft is thought to have been written in the 1560s, with revisions thereafter, up to its publication; the most systematic and comprehensive treatise of the time on poetry; "contrived into three bookes: the first of poets and poesies , the second of proportion , the third of ornament " the work concludes with lengthy observations on good manners
• Sir Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesie, criticism
• Nicholas Yonge, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music

  Other

• Flor de Varios Romances Nuevos, a famous Spanish poetry anthology; includes 12 romances by Luis de Góngora y Argote
• Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 1569, the second part was published for the first time om 1578 , the third part was published for the first time this year ; Spain

  Births

• January 9 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian Baroque poet
• February 5
• * Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française
• * Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish
• Also:
• * Konstantinos Kallokratos Greek teacher and poet
• * Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, French engineer, geographer, poet, playwright and author
• * Jean Sirmond, French neo-Latin poet and man of letters

  Deaths

• October 15 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade
• Also:
• * Heo Nanseolheon, Korean scholar and poet writing mainly in Chinese, a woman
• * Mathias Holtzwart died sometime after this year, German
• * Pavel Kyrmezer, Slovak
• * Thomas Sébillet, French lawyer, essayist, neo-Platonist grammarian and writer on poetry