1575 in poetry

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Events

Venetian poet and courtesan Veronica Franco painted in the style of Tintoretto, c.1575

Works published

Great Britain

• Nicholas Breton, A Small Handful of Fragrant Flowers[1]
• Thomas Churchyard, The Firste Parte of Churchyardes Chippes, some prose but mostly poetry; in part, it recounts how Queen Elizabeth was received by the city of Bristow[1]
• George Gascoigne, The Posies of George Gascoigne Esquire, the second, very expanded edition of A Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 1573; includes "The Fruits of Warre" (the author's longest poem}) and "Certayne Notes of Instruction Concerning the Making of Verse or Ryme in English" (see also The Whole Woorkes 1587)[1]
• John Rolland, The Court of Venus[1]

Other

• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France[2]
• 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

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[3]
  • Adam Reusner (approximate date; born sometime from 1471 to 1496), German
  • William Stevenson (born 1530), English poet, author and clergyman; presumed playwright

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

1. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
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 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2009-05-27. Retrieved 2009-05-14.