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1490s in poetry
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1582 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Philip Sidney (attributed), Astrophil and Stella Richard Stanyhurst, Thomas Watson, Lodovico Castelvetro, Le rime del Petrarca breuemente sposte per Lodouico Castelvetro, Basle: Pietro de Sedabonis; Italian commentary on Petrarch, posthumous Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works; France Fernando de Herrera, Algunas obras de Fernando de Herrera, Spain January 28 - John Barclay, Scottish satirist and poet (died 1621) April 8 (bapt.
1500 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French). Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Guy of Warwick, related to the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic (c. 1232–1242) Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton, translated c. 1300 from the Anglo-Norman Boeve de Haumtone c.
1562 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 18 January – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.
1560 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1555 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1549 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Joachim du Bellay, France: L'Olive, the first sonnet sequence written in France La Defense et illustration de la langue françoyse; the author argues that all languages have equal value, and that modern French can express wisdom and truth as well as Ancient Greek, Latin, Italian or Spanish, but du Bellay also advocates adoption of Italianate and classical poetic forms to improve French poetry; he states that it is "no vicious thing, but praiseworthy, to borrow from a foreign tongue thoughts and words and appropriate them to our own" Recueil de poesie, presente à tres illustre princesse Madame Marguerite, seur unique du Roy [.
1543 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics (the first official index is started in 1564). Pierre de Ronsard is tonsured in Le Mans, where he met Jacques Peletier.
1542 in poetry
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1532 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Anonymous, Sir Lamwell, publication year uncertain but thought to be sometime from 1530 to this year; a version of an Authurian "fairy mistress" tale from Marie de France's Lai de Lanval, written in the second half of the 12th century Geoffrey Chaucer, , edited by William Thynne (see also 1561, 1598); Great Britain William Walter, Guistarde and Sigismonde, translation of Boccaccio's Dec
1535 in poetry
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