1577 in poetry

• December 4 – John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes) is imprisoned in Toledo, Spain. During his imprisonment he composes his Spiritual Canticle (Cántico Espiritual). ==Works published==

===Great Britain=== • Nicholas Breton: • The Works of a Young Wit • A Flourish upon Fancy • Guillaume Du Bartas, La Semaine, ou Création du Monde, France • Eoghan O'Duffy, tr. by John O'Daly (1864), The Apostasy of Myler Magrath, Archbishop of Cashel, Cashel, County Tipperary. Composed as Irish bardic poetry in 1577. ==Births==

• March – George Sandys (died 1644), English traveller, colonist and poet • November 10 – Jacob Cats (died 1660), Dutch poet ==Deaths==

• March 6 – Rémy Belleau (born 1528), French poet and member of La Pléiade • April 21 – Girolamo Parabosco (born c. 1524), Italian poet and musician • August 12 – Sir Thomas Smith (born 1513), English scholar, diplomat and poet • October 7 – George Gascoigne (born c. 1535), English poet who died while a guest at George Whetstone's family manor of Walcot at Barnack, near Stamford, Lincolnshire; Whetstone commemorated his friend in a long elegy. • Also: • Annibale Cruceio (born 1509), Italian, Latin-language poet ==See also==