1540 in poetry
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Events
Awards
Works published
- Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain[1]
- Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages[2]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
- Pierre de Bourdeille, also known as Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
- Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh-language poet
- Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese[3]
- Sir Edward Dyer (died 1607), English
- Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
- Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
- Jakob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), German
- Francisco de Terrazas
- Isabella Whitney (died unknown), English
Deaths
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See also
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. [http://www.webcitation.org/5iSWRnI3o Archived 2009-07-22.
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
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