1554 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

Works published

France

• Pierre de Ronsard:
  • Bocage[1]
  • Meslanges[2]
• Hugh Salel, Tombeau poétique de Hugues Salel a posthumous edition prepared by Olivier de Magny of Salel's translation of Books 11 and 12 of the Iliad of Homer; Paris: Vincent Sertenas[3]

Great Britain

• Miles Huggarde, The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar, written 1549; non-elite opposition to the Reformation[4]
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourthe Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido (see also Certain Bokes 1557)[4]
• Sir David Lyndsay (also spelled "David Lindsay"), The Monarche, includes other works by the author[4]

Other

• Giraldi Cinthio, Discoursi intorno al comporre dei romanzi, commedie, e tragedie ("Discourses on Composing Romances, Comedies, and Tragedies"), Italian criticism[5]
• Friedrich Dedekind, Grobiana, an enlarged version of Grobianus, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse first published in 1549; enormously popular across Continental Europe (see also Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres 1558)
• Longinus, Dionysi Longini rhetoris praestantissimi liber de grandi sive sublimiorationis genere ... cum adnotationibus, ("On the Sublime"), first modern edition published by Francis Robortello[6] in Basel, Switzerland

Births

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

• Bálint Balassi (died 1594), Hungarian lyric poet[2]
• Sir Philip Sidney (died 1586), English poet and scholar
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (died 1628), Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman

Deaths

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

• Gutierre de Cetina (born 1519), Spanish poet and soldier
• Robert Wedderburn died about this year (born c. 1510), Scottish

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry

Notes

1. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
2. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
3. Web page titled "Olivier de Magny (1529? -1561?)", in French, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
4. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
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
6. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), pp 308-309, Franklin, Burt, 1971, ISBN 978-0-8337-4046-5, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010