1563 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1563 in poetry

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Events

February 14 – French poet Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard is discovered hiding under the bed of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is executed about a week later.

Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other ballads^[1]
Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (sources disagree on the year of publication; another source^[2] gives the year as 1562^[1]

Antonio Sebastiano Minturno, L'arte poetica, criticism^[3]
Giangiorgio Trissino, La poetica, Books 5–6 (Books 1–4 published in 1529), Italy^[3]

José de Anchieta, De Gestis Mendi de Saa ("The deeds of Mem"), printed in Coimbra; written about 1560; Spanish in Brazil
Pierre de Ronsard, Trois livres du recueil de nouvelles poesies, France, criticism^[4]

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

Michael Drayton (died 1631), England
Heo Nanseolheon (died 1589), Korean scholar and poet who also wrote in Chinese, a woman^[5]
Pierre Matthieu (died 1621), French playwright, poet and historian
Josuah Sylvester (died 1618), England

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

March 19 – Arthur Brooke (born unknown), English poet whose only known work is The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet (1562), considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his famous play Romeo and Juliet
May 21 – Martynas Mažvydas (born 1510), author and editor of the first printed book in the Lithuanian language, including the first poetry
August 18 – Étienne de La Boétie (born 1530), French political philosopher and sonnet writer
William Baldwin (born c. 1515), English
Tani Soyo 谷宗養 died (born 1526), Japanese renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko

^ ^a ^b Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
^ Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
^ ^a ^b Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Moss, Ann, "Literary imitation in the sixteenth century: writers and readers, Latin and French", in Kennedy, George Alexander, et al., The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 3, p 114, Cambridge University Press, 1999,ISBN 0-521-30008-8, ISBN 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
^ Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 63, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009

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