1582 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Philip Sidney (attributed), Astrophil and Stella
• Richard Stanyhurst, **
• Thomas Watson, **

Other

• Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
• Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain

Births

• January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621)
• April 8 (bapt.) - Phineas Fletcher (died 1650), English
• November 21 - François Maynard (died 1646), French
• Late - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (died 1622), Spanish
• Also:
  • Richard Corbet (died 1635), English poet and bishop
  • Francesc Vicent Garcia (died 1623), Catalan poet
  • Giovanni Valentini (died 1649), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
  • John Vicars (died 1652), English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
• Possible date - Nef'i (executed 1635), Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist

Deaths

• July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans (born 1517), French humanist poet
• September 28 - George Buchanan (born 1506), Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
• Arnoldus Arlenius (born 1510), Dutch humanist philosopher and poet
• Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ottoman Turkish poet
• Natalis Comes (born 1520), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
• Adam Reusner died sometime between 1563 and this year (born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
• 1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
• 1582/1583: Alexander Scott (born 1520), Scottish

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. 0-521-30008-8, {{ISBN. 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
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. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications