1587 in poetry

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## Events

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* 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]

## Works published

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* 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]

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* 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

## Births

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* 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
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* Francis Kynaston (died 1642), English courtier, poet and translator
* Yun Seon-do (died 1671), Korean poet and government official

## Deaths

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* 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)

## 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. ^ 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, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
2. ^ 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, "Guillaume Du Bartas" p 169
3. ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
4. ^ France, Peter, ed. (1993). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-866125-8.

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