1584 in poetry
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Works published
France">French poetry">France
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du monde, unfinished.
- Pierre de Ronsard, the collective in-folio edition of his works
- Honoré d'Urfé, ''La Sireine''
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries
- King James VI, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie
- Anthony Munday, I Serve a Mistress
- Thomas Phaer, The Thirteen Books of Aeneidos, Boox 10-12 translated by Thomas Twyne; Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio
- Clement Robinson "and Divers Others", ''A Handful of Pleasant Delights''
Other
Births
- February 12 - Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle, Dutch
- September 15 - Georg Rudolf Weckherlin, German
- Also:
- * Francis Beaumont, English playwright and poet
- * Anna Ovena Hoyer born, German
- * Anna Visscher, Dutch artist, poet, and translator
- * Georg Rodolf Weckherlin born, German
- * Diederich von dem Werder born, German
Deaths
- March 10 - Thomas Norton, politician and poet
- August 22 - Jan Kochanowski, Pole who published poetry in Polish and Latin
- Also:
- * Johann Beltz, German
- * Lucas de Heere, Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
- * Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac, French jurist and poet
- * Sur, died sometime from 1581 to this year, Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect
- * 1584/1585/1586: Ulpian Fulwell, English Renaissance theatre playwright, satirist and poet