1542 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1539
1540
1541
1542
1543
1544
1545

Events

  • French poet Louise Labe disguised herself as a knight and fought at the siege of Perpignan[1]

Works published

Great Britain

  • Robert Burdet (poet), A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours, a reply to The Schole House of Women, published anonymously in 1541 (other replies include Edward Gosynhyll's [see below], and Edward More, The Defence of Women 1560)[2]
  • Edward Gosynhyll, The Prayse of all Women, publication year uncertain; a reply to The Schole House of Women, published anonymously in 1541 (see also Robert Burdet, above, and Edward More, The Defence of Women 1560); Great Britain[2]
  • John Leland, Naeniae in mortem Thomai Viati, neo-Latin poems on the death of Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder, Great Britain[2]

Other

  • John Calvin, versifier, with Guillaume Franc's music, Geneva Psalter, a new revised edition, first published 1539 and several subsequent revisions in later years; Franc, cantor and music teacher in Geneva, Switzerland, contributed numerous tunes for this edition including Psalm 6, 8, 19, 22, 24 (also used for 62, 95 and 111), and 38 (see also, The Geneva Psalter 1539, 1543; 1560, an edition with changed melodies was published in 1551), Swiss, French-language work published in Geneva
  • Antoine Héroët, La parfaicte amye, avec plusieurs aultres compositions dudict autheur, Lyon: Etienne Dolet, France[3]

Births

Thomas Wyatt the Elder died this year (Portrait of Sir Thomas Wyatt, by Hans Holbein the Younger, c. 1535–37)

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

Deaths

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

  • September 21 Juan Boscan, original Catalan name: "Joan Boscà Almogàver" (born c. 1490), Catalan poet who wrote in Spanish
  • October 11 Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (born c. 1503), English (see John Leland's work in "Works published" section)
  • date not known Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word" died this year or in 1543 (born 1499), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet
  • date not known Malik Muhammad Jayasi (born 1477), Indian poet who wrote in the Avadhi dialect of Hindi

See also

Notes

  1. Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
  2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-05-20. Retrieved 2009-05-20.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) bibliography page linked to Archived 2013-01-06 at Archive.today "Antoine Héroët (1492?-1568)"] web page, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
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