• Pierre de Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France
• José de Anchieta, De Gestis Meni de Saa, written about this year, published in 1563; Portuguese in Brazil

France edit

• Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticism^[1]
• Jacques Grévin, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du Bellay and Rémy Belleau^[1]
• Pierre de Ronsard, France:
  • Discours
  • Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition^[2]

Great Britain edit

• Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey^[3]
• William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt^[3]
• Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame^[3]
• Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565^[3]
• John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562^[3]
• Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in English^[3][4]
• Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain^[3]

Other edit

• Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice
• Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), Hebrew work published in Istanbul^[5]

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

• August 4 – Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
• Also:
  • Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet
  • William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
  • Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish
  • Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator
  • Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
  • Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
  • John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin

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

• January 1 – Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet
• April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet
• August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
• December 21 – Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer
• Approximate date – Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet

• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature