1567 in poetry

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

Events

 * Philippe Desportes' verses first come to public attention when they are sung during a court performance of Jean-Antoine de Baïf's Le Brave (France).

English

 * Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, (translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; see also The fyrst fower bookes 1565; many editions into the 17th century)
 * George Turberville:
 * The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, Turned into English Verse, translation and adaptation from Baptista Spagnuoli Mantuanus Adolescentia seu Bucolica)
 * Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs and Sonnets
 * The Heroycall Epistles of ... Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe Verse, translation of Ovid's Heroides, many editions
 * Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, publication year conjectural; earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman

Other

 * Jean-Antoine de Baif, Le Premier des Météores, a didactic poem on astronomy, France
 * Anna Bijns, Refrains, Netherlands, third edition (first edition 1528, second edition 1548)
 * Pey de Garros, Poesias Gasconas, Gascon poetry, France
 * Torquato Tasso, Discoursi dell'arte poetica ("Discourses on the Heroic Poem"), published from this year through 1570, Italian criticism

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February 12 – Thomas Campion (died 1620), English composer, poet and physician
 * February 27 – William Alabaster (died 1640), English poet
 * November – Thomas Nashe (died c. 1601), English, pamphleteer, poet and satirist
 * December 15 – Christoph Demantius (died 1643), German composer, music theorist, writer and poet
 * Also:
 * Valens Acidalius (died 1595), German critic and poet writing in Latin
 * William Alexander, 1st Earl of Stirling, birth year uncertain (died 1640), Scottish statesman, courtier, poet and writer of rhymed tragedies
 * Anthony Copley (died 1609), English Catholic poet and conspirator
 * Eochaidh Ó hÉoghusa (died 1617), Irish poet
 * John Salusbury (died 1612), Welsh knight, politician and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * May 2 – Marin Držić, also known as "Marino Darza" and "Marino Darsa" (born 1508), Croatian dramatist, author and poet
 * Also:
 * Thomas Beccon (born 1512), English
 * Nicolaus Mameranus, year of death uncertain (born 1500), Luxembourgish poet and historian