1561 in poetry

This article covers 1561 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, edited by John Stow, based on the Tynne edition of 1532; see also Thomas Speght's edition of the Workes 1598)
Barnabe Googe, translated from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae ), The Zodiac of Life, Books 1-4, published in Latin and English

Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Šamotulský kancionál, a "cantionale" or hymn-book; a Czech poet published in Polish
Julius Caesar Scaliger, Poetices libri septem, Italian critic published in Lyon, France, very influential, but derivative criticism

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

January 22 - Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and poet
April 8 - Dominicus Baudius, Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
July 11 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish lyric poet
October 27 - Mary Herbert, English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
Also:
* Gaspar Aguilar, Spanish poet and dramatist
* Bernardo de Balbuena, Spanish-born Latin American poet
* Henry Lok birth year uncertain, English
* Nicolas de Montreux, French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
* Robert Southwell year of birth uncertain, English Jesuit priest and poet

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