1552 in poetry

List of years in poetry (table)
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Works

French

• Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline[1]
• Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard[2]
• Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes[3]
• Pierre Ronsard, France:
  • Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)[4]
  • Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets[3]
  • Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

Other

• Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man[5]
• Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies[6]

Births

• January 22 – Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources (executed 1618), English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
• February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• Also:
  • Jean Bertaut (died 1611), French
  • Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian[5]
  • Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources,[7] or 1562, according to many others[8] (died 1623), Spanish
  • Edmund Spenser, born about this year (died 1599), English
  • Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire[9]
  • Cvijeta Zuzorić (died 1648), Ragusan

Deaths

• Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
• Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet

Events

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. 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, "Jean Antoine de Baif" p 132
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. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
4. "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
5. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
6. Trager, James, The People's Chronology, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
7. One of many that give 1552 as the birth year: Hills, Elijah Clarence, and Sylvanus Griswold Morley, Modern Spanish lyrics, p xxv, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1913, retrieved via Google Books on June 30, 2009
8. One of many that give 1562 as the birth year: González Mas, Ezequiel, Historia de la literatura española, p 5, Editorial de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, 1989 retrieved via Google Books on June 30, 2009
9. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications