1565 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
Works published
England">English poetry">England
- Robert Copland,, publication year uncertain
- Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid,
- Barnabe Googe, translation, ''The Zodiac of Life''
France">French poetry">France
- Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril; revised and expanded 1572; France
- Pierre de Ronsard:
- * Abrégé ''de l'art poétique français, a handbook intended for beginners in poetry; French criticism
- * Élegies, Mascarades, et Bergerie''
Other
- Jan Kochanowski, Chess, published either this year or in 1564; Polish
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- September 28 - Alessandro Tassoni, Italian
- Also:
- * Cheng Jiasui, Chinese landscape painter and poet
- * John Davies of Hereford, birth year uncertain, English
- * Francis Meres, English churchman, author, critic and poet
- * Konoe Nobutada, Japanese courtier and man of letters known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist
- * Andrzej Zbylitowski, Polish poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- October 14 - Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder, English
- December 13 - Konrad Gesner, German
- Benedetto Varchi,, Italian, Latin-language poet
- Approximate date - Hwang Jini, Korean kisaeng