1569 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Stephen Bateman, The Travayled Pylgrime, translated from Olivier de la Marche's Le chevalier delibere
• Alonso de Ercilla, La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part was published this year, the second in 1578, when it was published with the first part; the third part was published with the first and second parts in 1589' Spain
• Barnabe Googe, The Ship of Safeguard
• Jan van der Noot, A theatre for Worldlings, including poems translated into English by Edmund Spenser from French sources, published by Henry Bynneman in London
• Thomas Underdowne, published anonymously, a translation from Latin, Ovid his Invective against Ibis

  Births

• April 16 - Sir John Davies, English poet and lawyer, attorney general in Ireland; not to be confused with his contemporary, John Davies of Hereford
• September 5 - Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim, German officer and amateur poet
• October 18 - Giambattista Marino, Italian poet famous for his long epic L'Adone
• Also:
• * Ján Bocatius, Slovak
• * Barnabe Barnes birth year uncertain, possibly 1568 or 1571 , English
• * Arthur Gorges, English poet, translator and courtier
• * Geoffrey Keating , Irish Roman Catholic priest, poet and historian
• * Emilia Lanier, also spelled "Aemilia Lanyer", English
• * Thomas Seget, Scottish poet writing in Latin
• * Zhu Wuxia, flourished this year, Chinese woman poet

  Deaths

• September 5 - Bernardo Tasso, Italian
• Between September 8 and October 5 - Mikołaj Rej, Polish
• September 11 - Vincenza Armani, Italian
• October 7 - Guillaume Guéroult, French editor, translator and poet
• November 29 - António Ferreira, Portuguese
• date not known - Huang O, Chinese poet, a woman