Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Torquato Tasso enters the service of Cardinal Luigi d'Este at Ferrara.
England
Robert Copland, The Seven Sorrows That Women Have When Theyr Husbandes Be Deade, publication year uncertain
Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), Metamorphoses (see also Metamorphosis [Books 1–15])
Barnabe Googe, translation (from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life (see also editions of 1560, 1561)
Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril; revised and expanded 1572; France
Pierre de Ronsard:
Abrégé de l'art poétique français, a handbook intended for beginners in poetry; French criticism
Élegies, Mascarades, et Bergerie
Jan Kochanowski, Chess ("Szachy"), published either this year or in 1564; Polish
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
September 28 – Alessandro Tassoni (died 1635), Italian
Also:
Cheng Jiasui (died 1643), Chinese landscape painter and poet
John Davies of Hereford, birth year uncertain (died 1618), English
Francis Meres (died 1647), English churchman, author, critic and poet
Konoe Nobutada (died 1614), Japanese courtier and man of letters known as a poet, calligrapher, painter and diarist
Andrzej Zbylitowski (died 1608), Polish poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
October 14 - Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (born 1521), English
December 13 - Konrad Gesner (born 1516), German
Benedetto Varchi, (born 1502 or 1503), Italian, Latin-language poet
Approximate date - Hwang Jini (born 1522), Korean kisaeng
