1560 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
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">French poetry">France
- Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticism
- 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, first edition
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural ; 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 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 ; see also, editions of 1561, 1565
- John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams, 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 English
- Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 ; Great Britain
Other
- Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice
- Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda, Hebrew work published in Istanbul
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- August 4 - Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561, English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
- Also:
- *Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain, English playwright, writer and poet
- * William Fowler, birth year uncertain, Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
- * Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain, Scottish
- * Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain, English poet and translator
- * Sheikh Muhammad, Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
- * Anthony Munday, English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- * John Owen born about this year, Welsh poet writing in Latin
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- January 1 - Joachim du Bellay, French poet
- April 19 - Philipp Melanchthon died, German professor, theologian and poet
- August 12 - Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer, English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
- December 21 - Georg Thym, German teacher, poet and writer
- Approximate date - Hwang Jini, Korean poet