1556 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Works published
France
- Rémy Belleau:
- Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)[2]
Great Britain
- Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works[3]
- Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work[3]
- John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood,[3] verse allegory[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
- April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
- August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
- November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
- date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
- date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
- October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
- November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
- Also:
- Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
- Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
- Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
- Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English[6]
- John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet
See also
Notes
- 1 2 France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
- ↑ Applebaum, Stanley, (http://books.google.com/books?id=_O8AA3cWRcgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=French+poetry&lr=&ei=B0PbSvTbHpiqzQS454SzBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false Introduction to French poetry), Dover Publications, 1991, ISBN 978-0-486-26711-1, retrieved October 18, 2009
- 1 2 3 Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ↑ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- ↑ Rollins, Hyder E., and Herschel Baker, The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century, p 77 (1954), Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company
- ↑ Web page titled "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603", at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. Archived 2009-09-11.
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