1561 in poetry
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Works published
England
- Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse[1]
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, edited by John Stow, based on the Tynne edition of 1532; see also Thomas Speght's edition of the Workes 1598)[1]
- Barnabe Googe, translated from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life, Books 1â4, published in Latin and English (see also The Zodiac of Life 1560, 1565)[1]
Other
- Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Å amotulský kancionál ("Å amotulský hymn-book"), a "cantionale" or hymn-book; a Czech poet published in Polish (see also IvanÄice hymn-book 1564, a revised edition)[2]
- Julius Caesar Scaliger, Poetices libri septem ("Seven Books of Poetics"), Italian critic published in Lyon, France, very influential, but derivative criticism[3]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 22 â Francis Bacon (died 1626), English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and poet
- April 8 â Dominicus Baudius (died 1613), Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
- July 11 â Luis de Góngora (died 1627), Spanish lyric poet
- October 27 â Mary Herbert (died 1621), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
- Also:
- Gaspar Aguilar (died 1623), Spanish poet and dramatist
- Bernardo de Balbuena (died 1627), Spanish-born Latin American poet
- Henry Lok birth year uncertain (died 1608), English[1]
- Nicolas de Montreux (died 1608), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
- Robert Southwell year of birth uncertain (died 1595), English Jesuit priest and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- John Calvin (born 1509), Swiss, French-language Protestant religious leader who wrote hymns
- George Cavendish, (born either 1500 or 1494), English
- Nikolaus Herman (born c. 1500), German
- Olivier de Magny (born 1529), French
- Jorge de Montemayor (born 1521), Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
