1550 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women
• Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes
• John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes
• William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text
• Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms

[[French poetry|France]]

• Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie
• Pierre de Ronsard:
  • Bocage
  • Odes, the first four books

Births

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

• 12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
• Also:
  • Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
  • Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish
  • Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
  • Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
  • Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
  • Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
  • Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet
• Syed Sultan (died 1648), Bengali poet

Deaths

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

• February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
• June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
• June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
• June 13 – Veronica Gambara (born 1485), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader
• November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
• Also:
  • Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
  • Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
  • Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
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. 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
4. [http://www2.ac-lyon.fr/enseigne/lettres/louise/lyon/biolab.html "La vie de Louise Labé"] {{Webarchive. link. (2009-02-04 , a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.)
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