1572 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events[edit]
- 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[edit]
France[edit]
- 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 (a revised and expanded edition in which the "seconde journée was added[1]);first edition 1565; France[2]
- Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade[3]
Other[edit]
- Anonymous Rauf Coilyear, Scottish alliterative poem written in the late 15th century[4]
- Luís de Camões, Os Lusiadas, Portugal[5]
- Johann Fischart, New Eulenspiegel in Rhyme, a rewriting of Eulenspiegel into verse; Germany[6]
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- June 8 – Honorat de Porchères Laugier (died 1653), French poet
- June 11 – Ben Jonson, date not certain (died 1637), English poet and playwright
- January 22 – John Donne (died c. 1631), English poet and Anglican cleric
- December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (died 1622), Czech poet and playwright
- Also:
- Thomas Dekker, birth year not certain (died 1632), English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
- James Mabbe (died 1642), English poet and translator
- Nef'i (died 1635), Ottoman poet and satirist
- Benjamin Rudyerd (died 1658), English politician and poet
Deaths[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 13 – Petar Hektorović (born 1487), Croatian writer, poet and collector
- March 27 – Girolamo Maggi (born 1523), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist
- July 25 – Rabbi Isaac Luria (born 1534), Jewish mystic and poet in Palestine
- November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as "Il Bronzino" or "Agnolo Bronzino" (born 1503), Italian Mannerist painter and poet
- December 12 – (born unknown), Loredana Marcello, Venetian poet and letter writer
- Giovanni Bona de Boliris (born 1520), Humanist, poet and writer, writing in Latin and Italian
See also[edit]
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes[edit]
- ^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Rémy Belleau" p 140
- ^ Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
- ^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- ^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009