1560 in poetry

none 1560 poetry literature Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Pierre de Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France José de Anchieta, De Gestis Mendi de Saa, written about this year, published in 1563; Portuguese in Brazil Works published France Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticismFrance, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 0-19-866125-8 Jacques Grévin, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du Bellay and Rémy Belleau Pierre de Ronsard, France: Discours Oeuvres ("Works"), first editionWeinberg, 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), 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70 Great Britain Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); 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 abbeyCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, 0-19-860634-6 William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565 John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562 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 EnglishPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain Other Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), Hebrew work published in IstanbulCarmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 125, Penguin, 1981, 978-0-14-042197-2 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 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet Also: Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 1 – Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet December 21 – Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer Approximate date – Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet 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 Category:16th-century poetry Poetry