1550 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

Works published

Great Britain

• Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women[1]
• Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes[1]
• John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes[1]
• William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text[1]
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms

France

• Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie[2]
• Pierre de Ronsard:
  • Bocage[3]
  • Odes, the first four books[4]

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• 12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
• Also:
  • Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
  • Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish[5]
  • Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
  • Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
  • Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
  • Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
  • Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet

Deaths

Memorial where poet and Roman Catholic Bishop Jón Arason was executed in Skalholt, south Iceland

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
• June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
• June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
• June 13 – Veronica Gambara (born 1485), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader
• November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
• Also:
  • Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
  • Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
  • Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature

• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
2. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43
3. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
4. "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications