1581 in poetry
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Events
- Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is first published complete, a pirated edition printed in Parma being followed by an authorized edition from Ferrara, where the poet is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna.[1] Also this year, Aldus Manutius the Younger prints a selection of Tasso's lyrics and prose in Venice.
Works published
Great Britain
- Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the author[2]
- Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry
Other
- Marie de Romieu, Premières Åuvres poetiques de MaDamoiselle Marie de Romieu Vivaroise, France
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[3]
- Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata), Italy[4]
Births
- March 16 â Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (died 1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
- Also:
- Henry Adamson (died 1637), Scottish poet and historian
- Hieronim Morsztyn (died 1623), Polish poet
- Sir Thomas Overbury (murdered 1613), English poet and essayist
- Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (died 1627), English countess, minor poet and major patron of poets
Deaths
- Hywel ap Syr Mathew (born unknown), Welsh poet, genealogist and soldier
- Paul Speratus died (born 1484), German
- Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski died (born c. 1550), Polish
- Surdas, died sometime from this year to 1584 (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect
