1554 in poetry explained

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

France

• Pierre de Ronsard:
  • Bocage^[1]
  • Meslanges^[2]
• 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^[3]

Great Britain

• Miles Huggarde, The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar, written 1549; non-elite opposition to the Reformation^[4]
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourthe Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido (see also Certain Bokes 1557)^[4]
• Sir David Lyndsay (also spelled "David Lindsay"), The Monarche, includes other works by the author^[4]

Other

• Giraldi Cinthio, Discoursi intorno al comporre dei romanzi, commedie, e tragedie ("Discourses on Composing Romances, Comedies, and Tragedies"), Italian criticism^[5]
• 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 (see also Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres 1558)
• Longinus, Dionysi Longini rhetoris praestantissimi liber de grandi sive sublimiorationis genere ... cum adnotationibus, ("On the Sublime"), first modern edition published by Francis Robortello^[6] in Basel, Switzerland

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Bálint Balassi (died 1594), Hungarian lyric poet^[2]
• Sir Philip Sidney (died 1586), English poet and scholar
• Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (died 1628), Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Gutierre de Cetina (born 1519), Spanish poet and soldier
• Robert Wedderburn died about this year (born c. 1510), Scottish

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry

Notes and References

1. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990,
2. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003,
3. Web page titled "Olivier de Magny (1529? -1561?)", in French, retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.
4. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
5. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
6. Clark, Alexander Frederick Bruce, Boileau and the French Classical Critics in England (1660-1830), pp 308-309, Franklin, Burt, 1971,, retrieved via Google Books on February 11, 2010