1560 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
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French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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- Pierre Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of FranceCharles IX of FranceCharles IX was King of France, ruling from 1560 until his death. His reign was dominated by the Wars of Religion. He is best known as king at the time of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.-Childhood:...
- José de AnchietaJosé de AnchietaJosé de Anchieta was a Canarian Jesuit missionary to Brazil in the second half of the 16th century. A highly influential figure in Brazil's history in the 1st century after its discovery on April 22, 1500 by a Portuguese fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, Anchieta was one of the founders of...
, De Gestis Meni de SaaDe Gestis Meni de SaaDe Gestis Meni de Saa is a poem written about 1560 by José de Anchieta, a 16th century Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Brazil, who was called the "Apostle of Brazil." The poem describes the "heroic deeds" of Portuguese soldiers "fighting in the immense wilderness."The wars referred to were...
, written about this year, published in 15631563 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other ballads...
; PortuguesePortuguese poetry-History:The earliest Portuguese poetry was produced in Galicia, today a Spanish province that shares some similarities with Portuguese culture. Like the troubadour culture in the Iberian Peninsula and the rest of Europe, Galician-Portuguese poets sang the love for a woman, that often turned into...
in Brazil
FranceFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
- Rémy BelleauRemy BelleauRemy Belleau , was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones....
, a commentary on Pierre de RonsardPierre de RonsardPierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
's Second Livre des Amours, criticism - Jacques GrévinJacques GrévinJacques Grévin was a French dramatist.Grévin was born at Clermont, Oise in about 1539, and he studied medicine at the University of Paris. He became a disciple of Ronsard, and was one of the band of dramatists who sought to introduce the classical drama in France...
, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du BellayJoachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade.-Biography:He was born at the Château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.Both his parents...
and Rémy BelleauRemy BelleauRemy Belleau , was a poet of the French Renaissance. He is most known for his paradoxical poems of praise for simple things and his poems about precious stones.... - Pierre de RonsardPierre de RonsardPierre de Ronsard was a French poet and "prince of poets" .-Early life:...
, FranceFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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- Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition
Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 15841584 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th...
); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey - William BaldwinWilliam Baldwin (author)-Life:From the West Country, England, Baldwin studied logic and philosophy at Oxford. On leaving Oxford, he became a corrector of the press to the printer Edward Whitchurch. During the reigns of Edward VI and Queen Mary, it appears that Baldwin was employed in preparing theatrical exhibitions for...
, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt - Thomas ChurchyardThomas ChurchyardThomas Churchyard , English author, was born at Shrewsbury, the son of a farmer.-Life:Churchyard received a good education, and, having speedily dissipated at court the money with which his father provided him, he entered the household of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey...
, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame - Barnabe GoogeBarnabe GoogeBarnabe Googe or Gooche was a poet and translator, one of the earliest English pastoral poets.-Early life:...
, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 15281528 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, , publication year uncertain, Arthurian romance adapted from two episodes in the First continuation of Chretien de Troyes's Percival, ou le Conte del Graal* William Barlowe and...
); see also, editions of 15611561 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse...
, 15651565 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-English:* Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain... - John HeywoodJohn HeywoodJohn Heywood was an English writer known for his plays, poems, and collection of proverbs. Although he is best known as a playwright, he was also active as a musician and composer, though no works survive.-Life:...
, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 15501550 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women* Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes...
, Works 15621562 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Brice, Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting... - Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 15411541 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-French language:* Jacques Peletier, translation from the Latin of Horace, Ars Poetica, France...
(other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 15421542 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of Perpignan-Great Britain:...
); Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
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- Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), HebrewHebrew poetryHebrew poetry is poetry written in the Hebrew language. It encompasses such things as:* Biblical poetry, the poetry found in the poetic books of the Hebrew Bible* Piyyut, religious Jewish liturgical poetry in Hebrew or Aramaic...
work published in Istanbul
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- August 4 – Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 15611561 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse...
(died 16121612 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* George Chapman, translator, Petrarchs Seven Penitentiall Psalms, Paraphrastically Translated...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
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- Henry ChettleHenry ChettleHenry Chettle was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era.The son of Robert Chettle, a London dyer, he was apprenticed in 1577 and became a member of the Stationer's Company in 1584, traveling to Cambridge on their behalf in 1588. His career as a printer and author is...
, birth year uncertain (died c. 16071607 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works:* Samuel Daniel, Certaine Small Workes, the fourth collected edition of his works...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
playwright, writer and poet - William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 16121612 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* George Chapman, translator, Petrarchs Seven Penitentiall Psalms, Paraphrastically Translated...
), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator - Alexander HumeAlexander HumeAlexander Hume was a Scottish poet.The son of Patrick, 5th Lord Polwarth, he was educated at the University of St. Andrews and on the Continent. He was originally destined for the law, but devoted himself to the service of the church, and became minister of Logie in Stirlingshire...
, birth year uncertain (died 16091609 in poetry— Last lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, published this year and, four centuries later, still "eternal lines"Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature ....
), Scottish - Christopher MiddletonChristopher Middleton (d. 1628)-Life:The Dictionary of National Biography gives tentative information. He may be identical with the Christopher Middleton of Cheshire who matriculated from Brasenose College, Oxford, 12 December 1580, aged 20. A clergyman of the same name, who graduated B.D. from St...
, birth year uncertain (died 16281628 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* John Clavell, A Recantation of an Ill Led Life; or, A Discoverie of the High-way Law...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
poet and translator - Anthony MundayAnthony MundayAnthony Munday was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. The chief interest in Munday for the modern reader lies in his collaboration with Shakespeare and others on the play Sir Thomas More and his writings on Robin Hood.-Biography:He was once thought to have been born in 1553, because...
(died 16331633 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:-Great Britain:* Abraham Cowley, Poetical Blossomes...
), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer - John OwenJohn Owen (epigrammatist)John Owen was a Welsh epigrammatist, most known for his Latin epigrams, collected in his Epigrammata.He is also cited by various Latinizations including Ioannes Owen, Joannes Oweni, Ovenus and Audoenus....
born about this year (died 16221622 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Aylet:** Peace with Her Foure Garders: Five morall meditations...
), WelshWelsh poetryWelsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh language, Anglo-Welsh poetry, or other poetry written in Wales or by Welsh poets.-History:Wales has one of the earliest literary traditions in Northern Europe, stretching back to the days of Aneirin Welsh poetry may refer to poetry in the Welsh...
poet who wrote in LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
- Henry Chettle
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- January 1 – Joachim du BellayJoachim du BellayJoachim du Bellay was a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade.-Biography:He was born at the Château of La Turmelière, not far from Liré, near Angers, being the son of Jean du Bellay, Lord of Gonnor, first cousin of the cardinal Jean du Bellay and of Guillaume du Bellay.Both his parents...
(born c. 15221522 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Works published:* Biernat of Lublin, Zywot Ezopa , published about this year, Poland...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
poet - April 19 – Philipp MelanchthonPhilipp MelanchthonPhilipp Melanchthon , born Philipp Schwartzerdt, was a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protestant Reformation, intellectual leader of the Lutheran Reformation, and an influential designer of educational systems...
died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet - August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 15101510 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, Merlin, based on the second of two versions of the Middle English romance Arthur and Merlin, itself derived ultimately from the Old French prose Merlin, part of the Arthurian...
), EnglishEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet - December 21 – Georg ThymGeorg ThymGeorg Thym was a German teacher, poet and writer.-Life:Thym attended school in his home town and then, from 1540, attended the University of Wittenberg, where he met Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon, who remained his lifelong friends...
(born c. 15201520 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great...
), German teacher, poet and writer
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- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 16th century in poetry16th century in poetry-Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
- 16th century in literature16th century in literatureSee also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literatureDutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature is the literature written in the Dutch language in the Low Countries from around 1550 to around 1700...
- Elizabethan literatureElizabethan literatureThe term Elizabethan literature refers to the English literature produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I .The Elizabethan era saw a great flourishing of literature, especially in the field of drama...
- French Renaissance literatureFrench Renaissance literatureFor more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
- Renaissance literatureRenaissance literatureRenaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
- Spanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...