Overview of the events of 1568 in poetry
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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
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; published posthumously (died 1529) by Thomas Marshe
- 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 " 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 " 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
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- Elizabethan literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- Rollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century, p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company