1567 in poetry

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).

Works published

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)
• 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 (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

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
• 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