1554 in poetry
This article covers 1554 in poetry. Remove Empty Sections Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
France">French poetry">France
- Pierre de Ronsard:
- * Bocage
- * Meslanges
- Hugh Salel, Tombeau poétique de Hugues Salel a posthumous edition prepared by Olivier de Magny of Salel's translation of Books 11 and 12 of the Iliad of Homer; Paris: Vincent Sertenas
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
- Miles Huggarde, The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar, written 1549; non-elite opposition to the Reformation
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourthe Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido
- Sir David Lyndsay, The Monarche, includes other works by the author
Other
- Giraldi Cinthio, Discoursi intorno al comporre dei romanzi, commedie, e tragedie, Italian criticism
- Friedrich Dedekind, Grobiana, an enlarged version of Grobianus, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse first published in 1549; enormously popular across Continental Europe
- Longinus, Dionysi Longini rhetoris praestantissimi liber de grandi sive sublimiorationis genere... cum adnotationibus,, first modern edition published by Francis Robortello in Basel, Switzerland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Bálint Balassi, Hungarian lyric poet
- Sir Philip Sidney, English poet and scholar
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- Gutierre de Cetina, Spanish poet and soldier
- Robert Wedderburn died about this year, Scottish