1562 in poetry

Overview of the events of 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]

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:
- A Ballad Against Slander and Detraction^[2]
- Woorkes, including the author's 600 previously published epigrams and his proverbs; the book proved popular, with new editions in 1566, 1576, 1587 and 1598.^[4]
Thomas Phaer, The Nyne First Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil, edited by W. Wightman (see also The Seven First Bookes 1558, The Whole Twelve Bookes 1573, The Thirteen Bookes 1584)^[2]

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

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:
- Henry Constable (died 1613), English poet
- Samuel Daniel (died 1619), English poet and historian
- Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources,^[6] or 1552, according to many others^[7] (died 1623), Spanish^[8]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

^ "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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