1562 in poetry
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Events[]
- 18 January – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.[1]
Works published[]
England[]
- Thomas Brice, Against Filthy Writing, and Such Like Delighting[2]
- Arthur Brooke, translation, The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet, a narrative poem, translated from the French version by Pierre Boaistuau (Paris, 1559) of Matteo Bandello's story, "La sfortunata morte di dui infelicissimi manti", from Bandello's Novelle, 1554; Brooke's work is considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his play Romeo and Juliet (1597).[2]
- Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes and Sonettes (sources disagree on the year of publication; another source asserts the book was published in 1563[2])[3]
- John Heywood:
- Thomas Phaer, The Nyne First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil, edited by (see also The Seven First Bookes 1558, The Whole Twelve Bookes 1573, The Thirteen Bookes 1584)[2]
Other[]
- Francesco Berni Latin poems, Florence, Italy
- Maurice Scève, Microcosme, a long, cosmic, religious and scientific poem about the creation of man, his fate and his achievements; France[5]
- Clément Marot and Theodore Beza, The Geneva Psalter, revised edition, with rhymed versions of all 150 Psalms for the first time; some earlier melodies were replaced; many of the lyrics were updated or replaced and all were written by Marot and De Bèze (see also, The Geneva Psalter 1539, 1542, 1543; an edition with changed melodies was published in 1551), Swiss, French-language work published in Geneva
- Torquato Tasso, Renaud, heroic poem, Italy
Births[]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 13 – Mark Alexander Boyd (died 1601), Scottish poet and soldier of fortune
- January 15 (baptized) – Robert Tofte (died 1620), English translator and poet
- January 20 – Ottavio Rinuccini (died 1621), Italian poet, courtier and opera librettist
- August 26 (baptized) – Bartolomé Leonardo de Argensola (died 1631), Spanish poet, writer and historian; brother of poet Lupercio Leonardo de Argensola
- November 25 – Félix Lope de Vega (died 1635), Spanish poet and playwright
- Also:
Deaths[]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Nicholas Grimald (born 1519), English poet and translator
- Georg Wickram (born 1505), German poet and novelist
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[]
- ^ "Gorboduc, or the Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrox". Archived from the original on 2007-09-17. Retrieved 2007-11-14.
- ^ a b c d e Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Lucie-Smith, Edward, Penguin Book of Elizabethan Verse, 1965, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, United Kingdom: Penguin Books
- ^ 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
- ^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ^ One of many that give 1562 as the birth year: González Mas, Ezequiel, Historia de la literatura española, p 5, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1989 retrieved via Google Books on June 30, 2009
- ^ One of many that give 1552 as the birth year: Hills, Elijah Clarence, and Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Modern Spanish lyrics, p xxv, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1913, retrieved via Google Books on June 30, 2009
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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