1572 in poetry

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

Events

 * George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.

France

 * Olivier de Magny, Les Amours d'Olivier de Magny et quelques odes de luy, B. Rigaud, Paris, posthumously published France
 * Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril (a revised and expanded edition in which the "seconde journée was added );first edition 1565; France
 * Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade

Other

 * Anonymous Rauf Coilyear, Scottish alliterative poem written in the late 15th century
 * Luís de Camões, Os Lusiadas, Portugal
 * Johann Fischart, New Eulenspiegel in Rhyme, a rewriting of Eulenspiegel into verse; Germany

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * June 8 – Honorat de Porchères Laugier (died 1653), French poet
 * June 11 – Ben Jonson, date not certain (died 1637), English poet and playwright
 * January 22 – John Donne (died c. 1631), English poet and Anglican cleric
 * December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (died 1622), Czech poet and playwright
 * Also:
 * Thomas Dekker, birth year not certain (died 1632), English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
 * James Mabbe (died 1642), English poet and translator
 * Nef'i (died 1635), Ottoman poet and satirist
 * Benjamin Rudyerd (died 1658), English politician and poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * March 13 – Petar Hektorović (born 1487), Croatian writer, poet and collector
 * March 27 – Girolamo Maggi (born 1523), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist
 * July 25 – Rabbi Isaac Luria (born 1534), Jewish mystic and poet in Palestine
 * November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as "Il Bronzino" or "Agnolo Bronzino" (born 1503), Italian Mannerist painter and poet
 * December 12 – (born unknown), Loredana Marcello, Venetian poet and letter writer
 * Giovanni Bona de Boliris (born 1520), Humanist, poet and writer, writing in Latin and Italian