1581 in poetry

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## Events

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* Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is first published complete, a pirated edition printed in Parma being followed by an authorized edition from Ferrara, where the poet is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna.[1] Also this year, Aldus Manutius the Younger prints a selection of Tasso's lyrics and prose in Venice.

## Works published

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* Anonymous, A Triumph for True Subjects, and a Terrour unto al Tratiours, ballad on the execution of Edmund Campion on December 1, 1561, attributed to William Elderton, who was likely not the author[2]
* Sir Philip SIdney, An Apology for Poetry

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* Marie de Romieu, Premières Œuvres poetiques de MaDamoiselle Marie de Romieu Vivaroise, France
* Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[3]
* Torquato Tasso, Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata), Italy[4]

## Births

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* March 16 - Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (died 1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
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* Henry Adamson (died 1637), Scottish poet and historian
* Hieronim Morsztyn (died 1623), Polish poet
* Sir Thomas Overbury (murdered 1613), English poet and essayist
* Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford (died 1627), English countess, minor poet and major patron of poets

## Deaths

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* Hywel ap Syr Mathew (born unknown), Welsh poet, genealogist and soldier
* Paul Speratus died (born 1484), German
* Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski died (born c. 1550), Polish
* Surdas, died sometime from this year to 1584 (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect

## See also

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* Poetry portal

* 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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## Notes

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1. ^ Oxford World's Classics ed.
2. ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
3. ^ 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
4. ^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F. et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.

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