1572 in poetry

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

[[French poetry|France]]

• 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);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 "[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

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

Notes

References

1. 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
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. 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
4. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
6. Thomas, Calvin, [https://books.google.com/books?id=n9EPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22German+literature%22 ''A History of German Literature''], New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009