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1563 in poetry
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1563 poetry literature
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Events
February 14 – French poet Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard is discovered hiding under the bed of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is executed about a week later.
Works published
England
Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other balladsCox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm
Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (sources disagree on the year of publication; another sourceLucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books gives the year as 1562
Italy
Antonio Sebastiano Minturno, L'arte poetica, criticismPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Giangiorgio Trissino, La poetica, Books 5–6 (Books 1–4 published in 1529), Italy
Other
José de Anchieta, De Gestis Mendi de Saa ("The deeds of Mem"), printed in Coimbra; written about 1560; Spanish in Brazil
Pierre de Ronsard, Trois livres du recueil de nouvelles poesies, France, criticismMoss, Ann, "Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin and French", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 114, Cambridge University Press, 1999,0-521-30008-8, 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
Michael Drayton (died 1631), England
Heo Nanseolheon (died 1589), Korean scholar and poet who also wrote in Chinese, a womanOlsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 63, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, 0-313-28803-8, 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
Pierre Matthieu (died 1621), French playwright, poet and historian
Josuah Sylvester (died 1618), England
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 19 – Arthur Brooke (born unknown), English poet whose only known work is The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his famous play Romeo and Juliet
May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas (born 1510), author and editor of the first printed book in the Lithuanian language, including the first poetry
August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie (born 1530), French political philosopher and sonnet writer
William Baldwin (born c. 1515), English
Tani Soyo 谷宗養 died (born 1526), Japanese renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
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
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