1568 in poetry
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Events
- Simwnt Fychan appointed "pencerdd", or senior bard, by Elizabeth I of England
 - Siôn Phylip ordained as a master poet at the second Eisteddfod in Caerwys
 
Works published
- Thomas Drant, Epigrams and Sentences Spirituall in Vers, translated from St. Gregory Nazianzus[1]
 - Thomas Howell (poet), The Arbor of Amitie[1]
 - John Skelton, Pithy Pleasaunt and Profitable Workes of Maister Skelton, edited by J. Stow;[1] published posthumously (died 1529) by Thomas Marshe[2]
 - George Turberville, A Plaine Path to Perfect Vertue, translation of Dominic Mancini's De quatour virtutibus[1]
 
Other
- François d'Amboise, Élégie sur le trépas d'Anne de Montmorency, France
 - Petar Hektorović, Ribanje i ribarsko prigovaranje ("Fishing and Fishermen's Talk"), three-part pastoral and philosophic narrative poem written in Croatian and published in Venice
 
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- February 2 – Peter Révay (died 1622), Hungarian poet, nobleman, Royal Crown Guard for the Holy Crown of Hungary, state official, soldier and historian
 - March 30 – Henry Wotton (died 1639), English diplomat, author and poet
 - September 3 – Adriano Banchieri (died 1634), Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet
 - September 5 – Tommaso Campanella (died 1639), philosopher and poet
 - Also:
- Yuan Hongdao (died 1610), Chinese poet of the Ming Dynasty and one of the Three Yuan Brothers
 - Gervase Markham, birth year uncertain (died 1637), English poet and writer
 
 
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- September 14 – Jan van Casembroot (born 1525), South Holland noble and poet
 - December 23 – Roger Ascham (born c. 1515), English scholar, didactic writer and poet; died from a chill contracted when staying up all night to finish a New Year's Day poem for Queen Elizabeth I, whom he had tutored
 - Abderrahman El Majdoub (born unknown), Berber Moroccan poet
 - Antoine Héroet (born unknown), French philosopher, theologian, astrologer and poet
 - Luigi Tansillo (born 1510), Italian poet of Petrarchan sonnets and Marinist style
 
See also
- Poetry
 - 16th century in poetry
 - 16th century in literature
 - Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
 - Elizabethan literature
 - French Renaissance literature
 - Renaissance literature
 - Spanish Renaissance literature
 
Notes
- ^ a b c d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
 - ^ Rollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century, p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company