1582 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Great Britain

 * Philip Sidney (attributed), Astrophil and Stella
 * Richard Stanyhurst, 
 * Thomas Watson, 

Other

 * Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous
 * Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
 * Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain

Births

 * January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621)
 * April 8 (bapt.) - Phineas Fletcher (died 1650), English
 * November 21 - François Maynard (died 1646), French
 * Late - Juan de Tassis, 2nd Count of Villamediana (died 1622), Spanish
 * Also:
 * Richard Corbet (died 1635), English poet and bishop
 * Francesc Vicent Garcia (died 1623), Catalan poet
 * Giovanni Valentini (died 1649), Italian Baroque composer, poet and keyboard virtuoso
 * John Vicars (died 1652), English contemporary biographer, poet and polemicist of the English Civil War
 * Possible date - Nef'i (executed 1635), Ottoman Turkish poet and satirist

Deaths

 * July/August - Jacques Pelletier du Mans (born 1517), French humanist poet
 * September 28 - George Buchanan (born 1506), Scottish historian, scholar, humanist and poet
 * Arnoldus Arlenius (born 1510), Dutch humanist philosopher and poet
 * Tashcali Yahya Bey, Ottoman Turkish poet
 * Natalis Comes (born 1520), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
 * Adam Reusner died sometime between 1563 and this year (born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
 * 1582/1585: Pir Roshan (born 1525), Pashtun warrior poet and intellectual who wrote in Persian and Arabic
 * 1582/1583: Alexander Scott (born 1520), Scottish