1577 in poetry
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Events
- December 4 â John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes) is imprisoned in Toledo, Spain. During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle (Cántico Espiritual).[1]
Works published
Great Britain
- Nicholas Breton:
- John Grange, The Golden Aphroditis, poetry and prose[2]
Other
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[3]
- Guillaume Du Bartas, La Semaine, ou Création du Monde, France[4]
- 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.[5]
Births
- March â George Sandys (died 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet
- November 10 â Jacob Cats (died 1660), Dutch poet
Deaths
- March 6 â Rémy Belleau (born 1528), French poet and member of La Pléiade
- April 21 â Girolamo Parabosco (born c. 1524), Italian poet and musician
- August 12 â Sir Thomas Smith (born 1513), English scholar, diplomat and poet
- October 7 â 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.
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