1587 in poetry

Events

• Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France
• French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.

Works published

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• Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse
• Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot
• George Gascoigne,, posthumously published
• George Turberville,, translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron
• George Whetstone,, in verse

Other

• François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France
• Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
• Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

Births

• September 18 - Francesca Caccini, Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
• October 18 - Lady Mary Wroth, English poet
• November 17 - Joost van den Vondel, Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
• Also:
• * Francis Kynaston, English courtier, poet and translator
• * Yun Sŏndo, Korean poet and government official

Deaths

• February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots, deposed queen regnant and occasional French-language poet, executed
• November - Madeleine Des Roches and her daughter, Catherine Des Roches, both died of an epidemic on the same day; together they collectively published French prose and poetry; the two hosted a literary circle which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
• date not known - George Whetstone died about this year, English playwright, poet and author