1565 in poetry

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

Events

 * 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 [sic], publication year uncertain
 * Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), Metamorphoses [sic] (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)

France

 * 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

Other

 * Jan Kochanowski, Chess ("Szachy"), published either this year or in 1564; Polish

Births
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

Deaths
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