1552 in poetry
This article covers 1552 in poetry.
Works
French">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
- * 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, English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
- February 8 - Agrippa d'Aubigné, French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
- Also:
- * Jean Bertaut, French
- * Abraham Fleming, poet, translator and antiquarian
- * Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others, Spanish
- * Edmund Spenser, born about this year, English
- * Seyhulislam Yahya, Ottoman Empire
- * Cvijeta Zuzorić, Ragusan
Deaths
- Bernardim Ribeiro, Portuguese
- Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休, Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
- Alexander Barclay, English/Scottish poet
- Giglio Gregorio Giraldi, Italian scholar and poet