1553 in poetry

This article covers 1553 in poetry.
— Opening lines from Gavin Douglas' Eneados, a translation, into Middle Scots of Virgil's ''Aeneid''

Events

Joachim du Bellay accompanies his cousin, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, on a visit to Rome which lasts until August 1557. In Rome, the poet continues to write works which will be published in 1558.

Olivier [de Magny]:
* Les Amours 102 sonnets addressed to "Castianire", often identified as Louise Labe, preceded by a sonnet often attributed to her; Paris: Estienne Groulleau, France
* Hymne sur la naissance de Madame, fille du roi très chrestien Henry, Arnoul L'Angelier, Paris; France
Pierre de Ronsard, ''Livret de Folâtries''

Ludovico Ariosto, Carminum Lib. Quatuor, also known as Carmina, edited by Giovanni Battista Pigna
Jami, Rose Garden of the Pious
Anonymous, Pierce the Ploughmans Crede, Great Britain
Gavin Douglas, Scottish poet :
*Eneados, translated from the Latin of Virgil's Aeneid 1512–1513; with Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio; the first complete translation of any major work of classical antiquity into an Anglic language; the first printed edition, published in London by the press of William Copland; the edition displays an anti–Roman Catholic bias, in that references to the Virgin Mary, Purgatory, and Catholic ceremonies are altered or omitted; 66 lines of the translation, describing the amour of Dido and Aeneas, are omitted as indelicate.
* The Palis of Honoure, publication year uncertain; second edition, substantially changed

March 29 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Cretan poet of the Greek Renaissance, writer of the romantic epic poem Erotokritos
John Lyly born this year or 1554, English writer, dramatist and poet

March 17 – Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius", Italian, physician, scholar, atomist and Latin-language poet
Also:
* Erasmus Alberus, German
* Hanibal Lucić died about this year, Croatian poet and playwright
* Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige, Japanese renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489