1587 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Jean-Antoine de Baif awarded the Golden Apollo by the Jeux Floraux de Toulouse, in France^[1]
• French King Henri of Navarre sends Guillaume Du Bartas on a diplomatic mission to Scotland and England.^[2]

• Thomas Churchyard, The Worthiness of Wales, mostly verse^[3]
• Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry; a translation from the French of Jacques Amyot^[3]
• George Gascoigne, The Whole Woorkes of George Gascoigne Esquyre, posthumously published (see also A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 1573, The Posies of George Gascoigne 1575)^[3]
• George Turberville, Tragicall Tales, translations from Mambrino Roseo and Boccaccio's Decameron^[3]
• George Whetstone, Sir Philip Sidney, his Honourable Life, his Valiant Death, and his True Vertues, in verse (see "Deaths" section)^[3]

• François de Malherbe, Les Larmes de Saint Pierre, presented to Henry III of France, a florid, mannered poem which the author later disowned, France^[4]
• Cristóbal de Virués, El Monserrate, Spain
• Jean Papire Masson, a book on the lives of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, published in Paris, France

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 18 – Francesca Caccini (died 1641), Italian early Baroque composer, singer, lutenist, poet and music teacher
• October 18 – Lady Mary Wroth (died c. 1651), English poet
• November 17 – Joost van den Vondel (died 1679), Dutch writer considered the most prominent Dutch poet and playwright of the 17th century
• Also:
  • Francis Kynaston (died 1642), English courtier, poet and translator
  • Yun Seon-do (died 1671), Korean poet and government official

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 8 – Mary, Queen of Scots (born 1542), deposed queen regnant and occasional French-language poet, executed
• November – Madeleine Des Roches (born c. 1520) and her daughter, Catherine Des Roches (born 1542), 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 (born c. 1544), English playwright, poet and author (see "Works published" section)

• 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
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