1583 in poetry

Events

• Sir Philip Sidney is knighted
• William Shakespeare's first daughter Susanna is born

  Works published

France">French poetry">France

• Jean de Sponde, a Latin translation of Homer, with commentaries
• Philippe Desportes, Dernièrs Amours, which increased the author's fame; France
• Catherine Des Roches, also known as "Catherine Fradonnet", and her mother, Madeleine Des Roches, France:
• * La Puce de Madame Des Roches
• * Secondes Oeuvres, Poitiers: Nicolas Courtoys

  Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Robert Greene, Mamillia (Part 2 published in 1593 Mamillia: The triumph of Pallas
• William Hunnis, Seven Sobs of a Sorrowful Soul
• Richard Robinson, The Auncient Order, Societie, and Unitie Laudable, of Prince Arthure, and his Knightly Armory of the Round Table, translated from the French of La devise des armes des Chevaliers de la Table Ronde, a treatise on heraldry published in Paris in 1546; adapted by the author to advertise a popular society of archers, Prince Arthur and the London Round Table; Edmund Spenser's schoolmaster, Richard Mulcaster, was a member

  Births

• March 3 - Edward Herbert, Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religious philosopher
• November 24 - Juan Martínez de Jáuregui y Aguilar, Spanish poet, scholar and painter
• Robert Aylett, English lawyer and religious poet
• William Basse, English
• John Beaumont, poet
• Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist, philosopher, theologian, Christian apologist, playwright, and poet
• Ishikawa Jozan 石川丈山, Japanese poet and intellectual
• Francisco de Rioja, Spanish
• Aurelian Townshend born about this year, English poet and playwright

  Deaths

• January 1 - François de Belleforest, French poet and translator
• date unknown - Alexander Arbuthnot, Scottish poet
• date unknown - Pey de Garros, French