1568 in poetry

Events

• Simwnt Fychan appointed "pencerdd", or senior bard, by Elizabeth I of England
• Siôn Phylip ordained as a master poet at the second Eisteddfod in Caerwys

Works published

[[English poetry|England]]

• Thomas Drant, Epigrams and Sentences Spirituall in Vers, translated from St. Gregory Nazianzus
• Thomas Howell (poet), The Arbor of Amitie
• John Skelton, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, edited by J. Stow;
• George Turberville, A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue, translation of Dominic Mancini's De quatour virtutibus

Other

• François d'Amboise, Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency, France
• Petar Hektorović, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje ("Fishing and Fishermen's Talk"), three-part pastoral and philosophic narrative poem written in Croatian and published in Venice

Births

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

• February 2 – Peter Révay (died 1622), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
• March 30 – Henry Wotton (died 1639), English diplomat, author and poet
• September 3 – Adriano Banchieri (died 1634), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet
• September 5 – Tommaso Campanella (died 1639), philosopher and poet
• Also:
  • Yuan Hongdao (died 1610), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty and one of the Three Yuan Brothers
  • Gervase Markham, birth year uncertain (died 1637), English poet and writer

Deaths

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

• September 14 – Jan van Casembroot (born 1525), South Holland noble and poet
• December 23 – Roger Ascham (born c. 1515), English scholar, didactic writer and poet; died from a chill contracted when staying up all night to finish a New Year's Day poem for Queen Elizabeth I, whom he had tutored
• Abderrahman El Majdoub (born unknown), Berber Moroccan poet
• Antoine Héroet (born unknown), French philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
• Luigi Tansillo (born 1510), Italian poet of Petrarchan sonnets and Marinist style

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. published posthumously (died [[1529 in poetry