1584 in poetry

Events

Works published

France">French poetry">France

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du monde, unfinished.
• Pierre de Ronsard, the collective in-folio edition of his works
• Honoré d'Urfé, La Sireine

  Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries
• King James VI, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie
• Anthony Munday, I Serve a Mistress
• Thomas Phaer, The Thirteen Books of Aeneidos, Boox 10-12 translated by Thomas Twyne; Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio
• Clement Robinson "and Divers Others", A Handful of Pleasant Delights

  Other

• Jan Kochanowski, Frazski, Poland

  Births

• February 12 - Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle, Dutch
• September 15 - Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German
• Also:
• * Francis Beaumont, English playwright and poet
• * Anna Ovena Hoyer born, German
• * Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator
• * Georg Rodolf Weckherlin born, German
• * Diederich von dem Werder born, German

  Deaths

• March 10 - Thomas Norton, politician and poet
• August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Pole who published poetry in Polish and Latin
• Also:
• * Johann Beltz, German
• * Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
• * Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, French jurist and poet
• * Sur, died sometime from 1581 to this year, Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect
• * 1584/1585/1586: Ulpian Fulwell, English Renaissance theatre playwright, satirist and poet