1567 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.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.
English">English poetry">English
- Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1-15,
- George Turberville:
- * The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, Turned into English Verse, translation and adaptation from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus Adolescentia seu Bucolica)
- * Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets
- * The Heroycall Epistles of... Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe Verse, translation of Ovid's Heroides, many editions
- Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, publication year conjectural; 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
- Anna Bijns, Refrains, Netherlands, third edition
- Pey de Garros, Poesias Gasconas, Gascon poetry, France
- Torquato Tasso, Discoursi dell'arte poetica, published from this year through 1570, Italian criticism
Births
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- February 12 - Thomas Campion, English composer, poet and physician
- February 27 - William Alabaster, English poet
- November - Thomas Nashe, English, pamphleteer, poet and satirist
- December 15 - Christoph Demantius, German composer, music theorist, writer and poet
- Also:
- * Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet writing in Latin
- * William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, birth year uncertain, Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
- * Anthony Copley, English Catholic poet and conspirator
- * Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa, Irish poet
- * John Salusbury, Welsh knight, politician and poet
Deaths
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