1552 in poetry

Works

[[French poetry|French]]

• Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
• Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard
• Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes
• Pierre de Ronsard, France:
  • Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)
  • Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets
  • Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

Other

• Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
• Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies

Births

• January 22 – Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources (executed 1618), English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
• February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
• Also:
  • Jean Bertaut (died 1611), French
  • Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian
  • Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others (died 1623), Spanish
  • Edmund Spenser, born about this year (died 1599), English
  • Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire
  • Cvijeta Zuzorić (died 1648), Ragusan

Deaths

• Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
• Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
• Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
• Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet

Notes

References

1. 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, "Jean Antoine de Baif" p 132
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. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0
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. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
6. Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
7. One of many that give 1552 as the birth year: Hills, Elijah Clarence, and Sylvanus Griswold Morley, [https://books.google.com/books?id=lLoNAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Alonso+de+Ledesma%22+1623&pg=PR25 ''Modern Spanish lyrics''], p xxv, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1913, retrieved via Google Books on June 30, 2009
8. One of many that give 1562 as the birth year: [[Ezequiel González Mas
9. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., ''The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics'', 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications