1551 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
… 1541 1542 1543 1544 1545 1546 1547 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554 1555 1556 1557 1558 1559 1560 1561 …
In literature 1548 1549 1550 1551 1552 1553 1554
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Events

Works published

• Robert Crowley, published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant[1]
• Marcantonio Flaminio, Carmina Sacra, posthumous, Italy

Births

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

• Bhai Gurdas (died 1636), Sikh scholar, poet and the scribe of the Adi Granth
• Siméon-Guillaume de La Roque (died 1611), French
• George Whetstone year uncertain (died 1587), English poet and author

Deaths

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

• Ludovico Pasquali (born 1500), Italian author and poet
• Sin Siamdang (born 1504), Korean painter, poet, embroiderer, calligrapher, scholar of Confucian literature and history[2]

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. Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 55, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994, ISBN 0-313-28803-8, ISBN 978-0-313-28803-6, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009