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1579 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1576
1577
1578
1579
1580
1581
1582
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Great Britain

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  • Thomas Churchyard, A lamentable and pitifull Description of the wofull warres in Flanders, including two poems (see also his The Miserie of Flaunders, Calamite of Fraunce, Misfortune of Portugall, Unquietnes of Ireland, Troubles of Scotlande: and the Blessed State of Englande 1579)[1]
  • Anthony Munday, The Mirrour of Mutabilitie, or Principall Part of the Mirrour for Magistrates[1]
  • Edmund Spenser, writing as "Immerto", The Shepheardes Calender, many editions[1]

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
  3. ^ Moss, Ann, "Theories of Poetry: Latin writers", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 105, Cambridge University Press, 1999,ISBN 0-521-30008-8, ISBN 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009