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1583 in poetry 
Summary
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
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Events edit
- Sir Philip Sidney is knighted
- William Shakespeare's first daughter Susanna is born
Works published edit
France edit
- Jean de Sponde, a Latin translation of Homer, with commentaries[1]
- Philippe Desportes, Dernièrs Amours, which increased the author's fame; France[2]
- Catherine Des Roches, also known as "Catherine Fradonnet", and her mother, Madeleine Des Roches, France:
- La Puce de Madame Des Roches (collection of verse)
- Secondes Oeuvres, Poitiers: Nicolas Courtoys
Great Britain edit
- Robert Greene, Mamillia (Part 2 published in 1593 Mamillia: The triumph of Pallas[3]
- William Hunnis, Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul[4]
- Richard Robinson, The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable, of Prince Arthure, and his Knightly Armory of the Round Table, translated from the French of La devise des armes des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, a treatise on heraldry published in Paris in 1546; adapted by the author to advertise a popular society of archers, Prince Arthur and the London Round Table; Edmund Spenser's schoolmaster, Richard Mulcaster, was a member[3]
Births edit
- March 3 – Edward Herbert (died 1648), Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
- November 24 – Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar (died 1641), Spanish poet, scholar and painter
- Robert Aylett (died 1655), English lawyer and religious poet
- William Basse (died 1653/1654), English
- John Beaumont (died 1627), poet
- Hugo Grotius (died 1645), Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet
- Ishikawa Jozan 石川丈山 (died 1672), Japanese poet and intellectual
- Francisco de Rioja (died 1659), Spanish
- Aurelian Townshend born about this year (died c. 1643), English poet and playwright
Deaths edit
- January 1 – François de Belleforest (born 1530), French poet and translator
- date unknown – Alexander Arbuthnot (born 1538), Scottish poet
- date unknown – Pey de Garros (born 1525), French
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ^ 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
- ^ a b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books