1581 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1581 in poetry

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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.

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

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]

March 16 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft (died 1647), Dutch historian, poet and playwright
Also:
- 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

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

^ Oxford World's Classics ed.
^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ 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
^ 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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