1588 in poetry
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Events
- MayâDecember â Lope de Vega serves in the Spanish Armada, where he begins writing his epic poem La Hermosura de Angélica.
- Christopher Marlowe writes The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1589 (first published 1599).
Works published
Great Britain
- William Byrd, editor, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, anthology of verse set to music[1]
- Thomas Churchyard, The Worthines of Wales, prose and poetry[1]
- Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry, translated from the French of Jacques Amyot[1]
Other
- Jean de Sponde, Essai de poemès chrétiens, published with a collection of prose meditations on four Psalms; France[2]
Births
- June 11 â George Wither (died 1667), English poet and satirist
- Guillaume Bautru (died 1665), French satirical poet and a founder member of the Académie française
- Richard Brathwait (died 1673), English poet
- Leonard Digges (died 1635), English translator and poet
- Josua Stegmann (died 1632), German poet
Deaths
- June 18 â Robert Crowley (born 1517), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
- November 1 â Jean Daurat also spelled "Jean Dorat"; Latin name: "Auratus" (born 1508), French poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade
- Louis Bellaud (born 1543), French Occitan language writer and poet
