1572 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.
Works published
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- Olivier de Magny, Les Amours d'Olivier de Magny et quelques odes de luy, B. Rigaud, Paris, posthumously published France
- Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril ;first edition 1565; France
- Pierre de Ronsard, ''La Franciade''
Other
- Anonymous Rauf Coilyear, Scottish alliterative poem written in the late 15th century
- Luís de Camões, Os Lusiadas, Portugal
- Johann Fischart, New Eulenspiegel in Rhyme, a rewriting of Eulenspiegel into verse; Germany
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- June 8 - Honorat de Porchères Laugier, French poet
- June 11 - Ben Jonson, date not certain, English poet and playwright
- January 22 - John Donne, English poet and Anglican cleric
- December 27 - Johannes Vodnianus Campanus, Czech poet and playwright
- Also:
- * Thomas Dekker, birth year not certain, English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
- * James Mabbe, English poet and translator
- * Nef'i, Ottoman poet and satirist
- * Benjamin Rudyerd, English politician and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 13 - Petar Hektorović, Croatian writer, poet and collector
- March 27 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist
- July 25 - Rabbi Isaac Luria, Jewish mystic and poet in Palestine
- November 23 - Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as "Il Bronzino" or "Agnolo Bronzino", Italian Mannerist painter and poet
- December 12 -, Loredana Marcello, Venetian poet and letter writer
- Giovanni Bona de Boliris, Humanist, poet and writer, writing in Latin and Italian