1589 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Christopher Marlowe wrote The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1588
Works published
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, verse and music
- Thomas Deloney, A New Ballet of the Straunge and Most Cruell Whippes which the Spanyards Had Prepared to Whippe and Torment English Men and Women, a ballad
- Anne Dowriche, The French Historie
- Anthony Munday, A Banquet of Daintie Conceits
- George Puttenham, authorship uncertain, Arte of English Poesie, the first draft is thought to have been written in the 1560s, with revisions thereafter, up to its publication; the most systematic and comprehensive treatise of the time on poetry; "contrived into three bookes: the first of poets and poesies, the second of proportion, the third of ornament " the work concludes with lengthy observations on good manners
- Sir Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesie, criticism
- Nicholas Yonge, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music
Other
Flor de Varios Romances Nuevos, a famous Spanish poetry anthology; includes 12 romances by Luis de Góngora y Argote- Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in 1569, the second part was published for the first time om 1578, the third part was published for the first time this year ; Spain
Births
- January 9 - Ivan Gundulić, Croatian Baroque poet
- February 5
- * Honorat de Bueil, seigneur de Racan, French aristocrat, soldier, poet, dramatist and original member of the Académie française
- * Esteban Manuel de Villegas, Spanish
- Also:
- * Konstantinos Kallokratos Greek teacher and poet
- * Antoine Le Métel d'Ouville, French engineer, geographer, poet, playwright and author
- * Jean Sirmond, French neo-Latin poet and man of letters
Deaths
- October 15 - Jean-Antoine de Baïf, French poet and member of La Pléiade
- Also:
- * Heo Nanseolheon, Korean scholar and poet writing mainly in Chinese, a woman
- * Mathias Holtzwart died sometime after this year, German
- * Pavel Kyrmezer, Slovak
- * Thomas Sébillet, French lawyer, essayist, neo-Platonist grammarian and writer on poetry