1577 in poetry

Events

• December 4 – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes) is imprisoned in Toledo, Spain. During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle (Cántico Espiritual).

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Nicholas Breton:
  • The Works of a Young Wit
  • A Flourish upon Fancy
• John Grange, The Golden Aphroditis, poetry and prose

Other

• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
• Guillaume Du Bartas, La Semaine, ou Création du Monde, France
• Eoghan O'Duffy, tr. by John O'Daly (1864), The Apostasy of Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, Cashel, County Tipperary. Composed as Irish bardic poetry in 1577.

Births

• March – George Sandys (died 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet
• November 10 – Jacob Cats (died 1660), Dutch poet

Deaths

• March 6 – Rémy Belleau (born 1528), French poet and member of La Pléiade
• April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco (born c. 1524), Italian poet and musician
• August 12 – Sir Thomas Smith (born 1513), English scholar, diplomat and poet
• October 7 – George Gascoigne (born c. 1535), English poet who died while a guest at George Whetstone's family manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire; Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy.
• Also:
  • Annibale Cruceio (born 1509), Italian, Latin-language poet

Notes

References

1. Chevalier, Dom Philippe. (October–December 1922). "Le Cantique spirituel de saint Jean de la Croix: a-t-il été interpolé?". Bulletin Hispanique.
2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
3. 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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
4. 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
5. [[Vivian Mercier]] (1962), ''The Irish Comic Tradition'', [[Oxford University Press]]. Pages 138-139.
6. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.