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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Philippe Desportes' verses first come to public attention when they are sung during a court performance of Jean-Antoine de Baïf's Le Brave (France).[1]
Works published
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Title page of the Poesias Gasconas
English
- Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, (translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; see also The fyrst fower bookes 1565; many editions into the 17th century)[2]
- George Turberville:
- The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, Turned into English Verse, translation and adaptation from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus Adolescentia seu Bucolica)[2]
- Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets[2]
- The Heroycall Epistles of ... Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe Verse, translation of Ovid's Heroides, many editions[2]
- Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, publication year conjectural;[2] earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman
Other
- Jean-Antoine de Baif, Le Premier des Météores, a didactic poem on astronomy, France[3]
- Anna Bijns, Refrains, Netherlands, third edition (first edition 1528, second edition 1548)
- Pey de Garros, Poesias Gasconas, Gascon poetry, France
- Torquato Tasso, Discoursi dell'arte poetica ("Discourses on the Heroic Poem"), published from this year through 1570, Italian criticism[4]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 12 – Thomas Campion (died 1620), English composer, poet and physician
- February 27 – William Alabaster (died 1640), English poet
- November – Thomas Nashe (died c. 1601), English, pamphleteer, poet and satirist
- December 15 – Christoph Demantius (died 1643), German composer, music theorist, writer and poet
- Also:
- Valens Acidalius (died 1595), German critic and poet writing in Latin
- William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, birth year uncertain (died 1640), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
- Anthony Copley (died 1609), English Catholic poet and conspirator
- Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (died 1617), Irish poet
- John Salusbury (died 1612), Welsh knight, politician and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- May 2 – Marin Držić, also known as "Marino Darza" and "Marino Darsa" (born 1508), Croatian dramatist, author and poet
- Also:
- Thomas Beccon (born 1512), English[5]
- Nicolaus Mameranus, year of death uncertain (born 1500), Luxembourgish poet and historian
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ 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
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ 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, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Web page titled "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603", at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. Archived 2009-09-11.