1556 in poetry
This article covers 1556 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Works published
France">French poetry">France
- Rémy Belleau:
- * Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French
- * Petites Inventions
- Pierre de Ronsard, ''Les Hymnes''
Great Britain">English poetry">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
- 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
- John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood, verse allegory the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- March 7 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer and poet
- April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville, French novelist and poet
- August 10 – Philipp Nicolai, German poet and composer
- November 25 – Jacques Du Perron, French
- date unknown – Trajano Boccalini, Italian satirical poet
- date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana, Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:- April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni", Italian poet and statesman
- October 21 – Pietro Aretino, Italian
- November 14 – Giovanni della Casa
- Also:
- * Fuzûlî, Ottoman Empire
- * Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos, Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
- * Nicholas Udall, English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
- * Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden, English
- * John Wedderburn, Scottish religious reformer and poet