1560 in poetry explained
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Events
Works published
- Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey[3]
- William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt[3]
- Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame[3]
- Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1 - 3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565[3]
- John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562[3]
- Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David - generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in English[3] [4]
- Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain[3]
Other
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- August 4 - Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
- Also:
- Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet
- William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
- Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish
- Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator
- Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
- Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 1 - Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet
- April 19 - Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet
- August 12 - Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
- December 21 - Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer
- Approximate date - Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet
See also
Notes and References
- France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
- 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),, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
- Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 125, Penguin, 1981,