1558 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England

Works published

• Joachim du Bellay, France:
  • Des Antiquités de Rome ("Antiquities of Rome")[1]
  • Les Regrets, melancholy satire,[2] a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"[3]
  • Divers Jeux Rustiques
  • Poésies latines
• Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549)
• Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
  • Lyric Poems[4]
  • Galateo[4]
• Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian[2]

Births

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

• October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
• Also:
  • Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet
  • Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
  • Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet
  • Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
  • Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet
  • William Warner (died 1609), English poet
  • Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator

Deaths

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

• Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
• Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese[3]
• Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet

See also

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

Notes

1. "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
2. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
4. Bondanella, Peter, and Julia Conaway Bondanella, co-editors, Dictionary of Italian Literature, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1979