1560 in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

 * Pierre de Ronsard becomes court poet to Charles IX of France
 * José de Anchieta, De Gestis Mendi de Saa, written about this year, published in 1563; Portuguese in Brazil

France

 * Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticism
 * Jacques Grévin, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du Bellay and Rémy Belleau
 * Pierre de Ronsard, France:
 * Discours
 * Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition

Great Britain

 * Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey
 * William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt
 * Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame
 * Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565
 * John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562
 * Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David &mdash; generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in English
 * Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain

Other

 * Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice
 * Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), Hebrew work published in Istanbul

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * August 4 – Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
 * Also:
 * Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet
 * William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
 * Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish
 * Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator
 * Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
 * Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
 * John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * January 1 – Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet
 * April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet
 * August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
 * December 21 – Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer
 * Approximate date – Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet