1570 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Formation in Paris of Antoine de Baïf's Académie de Poésie et Musique, and consequent development of musique mesurée by composers such as Claude Le Jeune and Guillaume Costeley
- Torquato Tasso travels to Paris in the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este.
Works published
- Thomas Churchyard, A Discourse of Rebellion
- Lodovico Castelvetro, Poetica d'Aristotele vulgarizzata e sposita, called the most famous Italian Renaissance commentary on Aristotle's Poetics
- Thomas Preston, A Lamentation from Rome how the Pope doth bewayle the Rebelles in England cannot prevayle. To the tune of "How well, ye mariners", a broadside ballad; published in London by William Griffith
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Sir Robert Aytoun, Scottish poet
- Eliáš Láni, Slovak
- Thomas Bateson, also spelled "Batson" or "Betson", birth year uncertain, English writer of madrigals
- Charles Best, English poet, writer of "A Sonnet of the Moon"
- Tadhg mac Dáire Mac Bruaideadha, Irish Gaelic poet and historian
- Francisco de Medrano born, Spanish
- Pedro de Oña, first known Chilean poet
- Samuel Rowlands, birth year uncertain, English pamphleteer, poet and satirist
- François du Souhait, born between 1570 and 1580, French language translator, novelist, poet, satirist, and moral philosopher
- Adrianus Valeriuss, born sometime from this year to 1575, Dutch
- Yuan Zhongdao, Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 25 - Johann Walter, German poet and composer
- November - Jacques Grévin, French playwright and poet