title: 1588 in poetry
text: # 1588 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * May–December – Lope de Vega serves in the Spanish Armada, where he begins writing his epic poem La Hermosura de Angélica.
  * Christopher Marlowe writes The Passionate Shepherd to His Love either this year or in 1589 (first published 1599).
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### Great Britain
  
  * William Byrd, editor, Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, anthology of verse set to music
  * Thomas Churchyard, The Worthines of Wales, prose and poetry
  * Angel Day, Daphnis and Chloe, prose and poetry, translated from the French of Jacques Amyot
  
  ### Other
  
  * Jean de Sponde, Essai de poemès chrétiens, published with a collection of prose meditations on four Psalms; France
  
  ## Births
  
  * June 11 – George Wither (died 1667), English poet and satirist
  * Guillaume Bautru (died 1665), French satirical poet and a founder member of the Académie française
  * Richard Brathwait (died 1673), English poet
  * Leonard Digges (died 1635), English translator and poet
  * Josua Stegmann (died 1632), German poet
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * June 18 – Robert Crowley (born 1517), English stationer, poet, polemicist and Protestant clergyman
  * November 1 – Jean Daurat also spelled "Jean Dorat"; Latin name: "Auratus" (born 1508), French poet and scholar, member of the Pléiade
  * Louis Bellaud (born 1543), French Occitan language writer and poet
  