1566 in poetry

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

England

 * Peter Beverley, The Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura
 * Thomas Churchyard:
 * Churchyard's Round
 * Churchyardes Farewell
 * Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp
 * Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * October 6 (birth year uncertain ) &mdash; Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
 * November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
 * Also:
 * Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
 * Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
 * John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
 * Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * April 25 – Louise Labé (born ca. 1524), French
 * September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
 * September 7 – Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
 * September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * October 31 – Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
 * November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian