1565 in poetry
# 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.

## Works published

### England

* Robert Copland, The Seven Sorrows That Women Have When Theyr Husbandes Be Deade, publication year uncertain
* Arthur Golding, translated from the Latin of Ovid (Books 1–4), Metamorphoses (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
