1585 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Irish poet Tuileagna Ó Maoil Chonaire composes the poem Labhram ar iongnaibh Éireann.
- On the death of Pierre de Ronsard, Philippe Desportes became "recognized indisputably as France's greatest living poet," according to 20th century scholar Bernard Weinberg.[1]
Works published
- Giordano Bruno, Italy:
- L’Infini de l’univers et les mondes
- De gli eroici furori ("The Heroic Enthusiasts"), a sonnet sequence and commentaries concerning the philosophy of love and love as a means of mystical ascent; dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney
- Cabala del Cavallo pegaseo
Births
- January 31 – Daniel Schwenter (died 1636), German Orientalist, polymath, poet and librarian
- March 16 – Gerbrand Bredero (died 1618), Dutch poet and playwright
- October 11 – Johann Heermann (died 1647), German poet and hymn writer
- November 1 – Jan Brożek (died 1652), Polish mathematician, astronomer, physician, poet, writer, musician and rector
- December 13 – William Drummond of Hawthornden (died 1649), Scottish poet
- Also:
- Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, née Elizabeth Tanfield (died 1639), English poet, translator and dramatist
- Ján Filický born about this year (died 1623), Slovak poet
- Fang Weiyi (died 1668), Chinese woman poet[2]
Deaths
- Paolo Giovio, birth year not known, Italian, Latin-language poet[3]
- Ambrosius Lobwasser died (born 1515), German
- December 27 – Pierre de Ronsard (born 1524), French
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
- University Wits
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ Kang-i Sun Chang, Haun Saussy, Charles Yim-tze Kwong, Women writers of traditional China: an anthology of poetry and criticism, p 267, Stanford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8047-3231-0, ISBN 978-0-8047-3231-4, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
- ^ Web page titled "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento" Archived 2015-11-24 at the Wayback Machine at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. Archived 2009-05-27.
