1543 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
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Events

• Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics (the first official index is started in 1564).[1]
• Pierre de Ronsard is tonsured in Le Mans, where he met Jacques Peletier.[2]

Works published

• Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la Vega, published posthumously, Spain[3]
• John Hardyng, Chronicle, contains a version of the quest for the Holy Grail; a minor source for Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur of 1485; published posthumously, England[4]
• Clément Marot, Théodore de Bèze and Pierre Certon La Forme des Prieres et Chantz ecclesiastiques, an edition of the Geneva Psalter; Marot moved to Geneva, Switzerland this year and was commissioned by John Calvin to create rhymed versions of all the Psalms; Marot being unable to complete the work (he died in the fall of 1544), the effort was continued by Bèze; Switzerland, French-language

Births

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

• October – Sir Edward Dyer (died 1607), English courtier and poet
• October 23 – Juan de la Cueva (died c. 1610), Spanish poet and playwright
• Also:
  • Louis Bellaud (died 1588), French
  • Sherefxan Bidlisi (died 1599), Iranian Kurdish historian, writer and poet
  • Juan de la Cueva (died 1612), Spanish dramatist and poet
  • Thomas Deloney (died 1600), English novelist and balladist
  • Simon Goulart (died 1628) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet[5]
  • Sebastian Grabowiecki born about this year (died 1607), Polish[3]
  • Bartosz Paprocki (died 1614), Polish and Czech writer, historiographer, translator, and poet
  • Siôn Phylip (died 1620), Welsh language poet
  • Gosvāmī Tulsīdās, also spelled "Tulasī Dāsa" or "Tulsidas"; another source gives his birth year as 1532 (died 1623), Indian Hindu religious poet[1]
  • Antonio Veneziano (died 1593), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language

Deaths

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

• date not known – Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word" died this year or in 1542 (born 1499), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet
• Marcello Palingenio Stellato, (born 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes

1. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
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, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
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. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
5. "Switzerland" article, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, Volume XXVI, p 265, retrieved via Google Books May 11, 2009. Archived 2009-05-13.