1563 in poetry

Events

• February 14 - French poet Pierre de Bocosel de Chastelard is discovered hiding under the bed of Mary, Queen of Scots. He is executed about a week later.

  Works published

England">English poetry">England

• Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other ballads
• Barnabe Googe, Eglogs, Epytaphes, and Sonettes (sources disagree on the year of publication; another source gives the year as 1562

  Italy">Italian poetry">Italy

• Antonio Sebastiano Minturno, L'arte poetica, criticism
• Giangiorgio Trissino, La poetica, Books 5-6, Italy

  Other

• José de Anchieta, De Gestis Meni de Saa, printed in Coimbra; written about 1560; Portuguese in Brazil
• Pierre de Ronsard, Trois livres du recueil de nouvelles poesies, France, criticism

  Births

• Michael Drayton, England
• Heo Nanseolheon, Korean scholar and poet who also wrote in Chinese, a woman
• Pierre Matthieu, French playwright, poet and historian
• Josuah Sylvester, England

  Deaths

• March 19 - Arthur Brooke, English poet whose only known work is The Tragicall History of Romeus and Juliet, considered to be William Shakespeare's chief source for his famous play Romeo and Juliet
• May 21 - Martynas Mažvydas, author and editor of the first printed book in the Lithuanian language, including the first poetry
• August 18 - Étienne de La Boétie, French political philosopher and sonnet writer
• William Baldwin, English
• Tani Soyo 谷宗養 died, Japanese renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko