1575 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers
• Thomas Churchyard, , some prose but mostly poetry; in part, it recounts how Queen Elizabeth was received by the city of Bristow
• George Gascoigne, , the second, very expanded edition of 1573; includes (the author's longest poem}) and (see also 1587)
• John Rolland, The Court of Venus

Other

• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France
• Veronica Franco, Terze rime; Italian

Births

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

• August 14 – Robert Hayman (died 1629) poet, colonist and Proprietary Governor of Bristol's Hope colony in Newfoundland; his book, ''Qvodlibets ("What you will"), published in 1628, is the first book of English poetry written in what would become Canada.
• Also:
  • Edmund Bolton (died c. 1633), English historian and poet, born this year by his own account
  • Cyril Tourneur (died 1626), English playwright and poet
  • Sir William Vaughan, "Orpheus junior" (died 1641), Welsh writer, poet and colonial investor
  • Henry Willobie (died 1596), English
• Approximate date:
  • Walter Quin (died 1640), Irish-born English court poet and author writing in English, Latin, French and Italian

Deaths

• April 10 (buried) – Anna Bijns (born 1493), Dutch
• August 14 – Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (born 1503), Spanish
• Also:
  • Giovanni Battista Pigna (born 1530), Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Adam Reusner (approximate date; born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
  • William Stevenson (born 1530), English poet, author and clergyman; presumed playwright

Notes

References

1. (2004). "The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature". Oxford University Press.
2. 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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
3. "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento". Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina.