1549 in poetry

Works published

[[French poetry|France]]

• Joachim du Bellay, France:
  • L'Olive, the first sonnet sequence written in France
  • La Defense et illustration de la langue françoyse;
  • Recueil de poesie, presente à tres illustre princesse Madame Marguerite, seur unique du Roy [...]
  • Vers lyriques
• Pontus de Tyard. Erreurs amoureuses

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• William Baldwin,
• Robert Crowley,
• Thomas Sternhold and John Hopkins, , translated from the Old Testament

Other

• Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (see also Grobiana, an enlarged edition 1554, and Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres 1558)

Births

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

• Giles Fletcher the Elder, birth year uncertain (died 1611), English poet and ambassador; father of Giles Fletcher the younger

Deaths

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• December 12 – Marguerite de Navarre, also known as "Marguerite of Angoulême" and "Margaret of Navarre" (born 1492), French queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre; patron of humanists and reformers, author, playwright and poet
• date not known – Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (born 1473), Japanese, the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
• date not known – Arthur Kelton died either 1549 or 1550 (born unknown), author who wrote in rhyme about Welsh history

Notes

References

1. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
2. 0-521-30008-8, {{ISBN. 978-0-521-30008-7, retrieved via Google Books May 27, 2009
3. 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
4. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
5. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0