1568 in poetry

none 1568 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Simwnt Fychan appointed "pencerdd", or senior bard, by Elizabeth I of England Siôn Phylip ordained as a master poet at the second Eisteddfod in Caerwys Works published England Thomas Drant, Epigrams and Sentences Spirituall in Vers, translated from St. Gregory NazianzusCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 Thomas Howell (poet), The Arbor of Amitie John Skelton, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, edited by J. Stow; published posthumously (died 1529) by Thomas MarsheRollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century, p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company George Turberville, A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue, translation of Dominic Mancini's De quatour virtutibus Other François d'Amboise, Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency, France Petar Hektorović, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje ("Fishing and Fishermen's Talk"), three-part pastoral and philosophic narrative poem written in Croatian and published in Venice Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: February 2 – Peter Révay (died 1622), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian March 30 – Henry Wotton (died 1639), English diplomat, author and poet September 3 – Adriano Banchieri (died 1634), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet September 5 – Tommaso Campanella (died 1639), philosopher and poet Also: Yuan Hongdao (died 1610), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty and one of the Three Yuan Brothers Gervase Markham, birth year uncertain (died 1637), English poet and writer Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: September 14 – Jan van Casembroot (born 1525), South Holland noble and poet December 23 – Roger Ascham (born c. 1515), English scholar, didactic writer and poet; died from a chill contracted when staying up all night to finish a New Year's Day poem for Queen Elizabeth I, whom he had tutored Abderrahman El Majdoub (born unknown), Berber Moroccan poet Antoine Héroet (born unknown), French philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet Luigi Tansillo (born 1510), Italian poet of Petrarchan sonnets and Marinist style See also Poetry 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 Category:16th-century poetry Poetry