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Events[edit]
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Works published[edit]
France[edit]
- Rémy Belleau:
- Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)[2]
Great Britain[edit]
- Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works[3]
- Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work[3]
- John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood,[3] verse allegory[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.[5]
Births[edit]
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
- April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
- August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
- November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
- date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
- date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
Deaths[edit]
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
- October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
- November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
- Also:
- Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
- Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
- Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
- Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English[6]
- John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b France, Peter, ed. (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866125-2.
- ^ Appelbaum, Stanley (1991). Introduction to French Poetry. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-26711-1.
- ^ a b c Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860634-5.
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-4197-8.
- ^ Rollins, Hyder E.; Baker, Herschel (1954). The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century. p. 77. OCLC 1037540836.
- ^ "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500–1603". Stanford University library. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08.