1565 in poetry

Events

• Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.

Works published

[[English poetry|England]]

• Robert Copland, , publication year uncertain
• Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), (see also Metamorphosis [Books 1–15])
• Barnabe Googe, translation (from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life (see also editions of 1560, 1561)

[[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 ("Szachy"), published either this year or in 1564; Polish

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni (died 1635), Italian
• Also:
  • Cheng Jiasui (died 1643), Chinese landscape painter and poet
  • John Davies of Hereford, birth year uncertain (died 1618), English
  • Francis Meres (died 1647), English churchman, author, critic and poet
  • Konoe Nobutada (died 1614), Japanese courtier and man of letters known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist
  • Andrzej Zbylitowski (died 1608), Polish poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• October 14 - Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (born 1521), English
• December 13 - Konrad Gesner (born 1516), German
• Benedetto Varchi, (born 1502 or 1503), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Approximate date - Hwang Jini (born 1522), Korean kisaeng

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. 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
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. 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
5. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.