1555 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1552
1553
1554
1555
1556
1557
1558

Events

Works published

France

  • Joachim du Bellay, Les Regrets, France
  • Jean Antoine de Baïf, Amour de Francine[1]
  • Louise Labé, Œuvres complètes ("Complete Works"), including her prose "Débat de Folie et d'Amour", three elegies and 24 sonnets (one in Italian), as well as 24 poems in her honor by others;[2] published by the noted Lyon printer, Jean de Tournes;[3] the first edition ran through two printings; reprinted again in 1556, with spelling corrections;[4] her sonnets have been often republished and translated[2]
  • Jacques Peletier du Mans, L'Art poetique ("The Art of Poetry"), French criticism[5]
  • Pierre de Ronsard:
    • Les Hymnes, addresses and panegyrics[6]
    • Les Amours de Marie
    • La Continuation des Amours[4]
    • Mélanges[7]
  • Pontus de Tyard, Livre des vers lyriques
  • Jean Vauquelin de la Fresnaye, Foresteries

Great Britain

  • John Heywood, Two Hundred Epigrammes (see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550; A Fourth Hundred of Epigygrams 1560, Works 1562[8]
  • Mirror for Magistrates, anthology of poems about great historical figures of England, first edition; published by John Weyland, who was apparently denied a license to publish by the Lord Chancellor Stephen Gardiner, effectively suppressing the work and putting Weyland out of business (the book was revived and published in 1559, third edition 1563, fourth edition 1574, another edition 1610)
  • Henry Lovel, eighth Baron Morley, The Truyumphes of Fraunces Petrarke, publication year uncertain; translated from the Italian of Petrarch's Trionfi[8]

Other

  • Girolamo Fracastoro, also known as "Fracastorius", Collected Works, including poems and Naugerius, criticism[5]

Births

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

Deaths

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

  • Sir David Lindsay (born 1490), Scottish

See also

Notes

  1. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
  2. France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
  3. Web page titled "Autres ouvrages sur la Renaissance à Lyon et en France", retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
  4. "La vie de Louise Labé", a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. Archived 2009-05-20.
  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. Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
  7. Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
  8. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
  9. Kravitz, Nathaniel, "3,000 Years of Hebrew Literature", Chicago: Swallow Press Inc., 1972,
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