1587 in poetry

Events

• Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France
• French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse
• Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot
• George Gascoigne, , posthumously published (see also 1573, 1575)
• George Turberville, , translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron
• George Whetstone, , in verse (see "Deaths" section)

Other

• François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France
• Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
• Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 18 – Francesca Caccini (died 1641), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
• October 18 – Lady Mary Wroth (died c. 1651), English poet
• November 17 – Joost van den Vondel (died 1679), Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
• Also:
  • Francis Kynaston (died 1642), English courtier, poet and translator
  • Yun Sŏndo (died 1671), Korean poet and government official

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1542), deposed queen regnant and occasional French-language poet, executed
• November – Madeleine Des Roches (born c. 1520) and her daughter, Catherine Des Roches (born 1542), both died of an epidemic on the same day; together they collectively published French prose and poetry; the two hosted a literary circle which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
• date not known – George Whetstone died about this year (born c. 1544), English playwright, poet and author (see "Works published" section)

Notes

References

1. 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, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
2. 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
3. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
4. (1993). "The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French". Oxford University Press.