1540 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists. Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M.
1627 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1430s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). John Lydgate, writes The Fall of Princes, sometime from 1431–1438; later published posthumously in 1494, with extracts published separately as Proverbs in c.
1420s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1425: Antonio Beccadelli, Hermaphroditus, a collection of 81 Latin epigrams Alain Chartier, La Belle Dame sans Merci; France 1429: Christine de Pisan, Le Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc, France Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: 1420: Martial d'Auvergne, French poet Giovanni Mattia Tabarino, born about this year (died 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet Jean Meschi
1645 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1632 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Arthur Johnston, Epigrammata, Scottish poet writing in Latin John Lyly, Alexander and Campaspe John Milton, "An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramaticke Poet, W.
1583 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1596 in poetry— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad Thomas Campion, Poemata Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars Henoch Clapham, Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune Roger Cotton: Sir John
1559 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). The Catholic Church creates the first Index Librorum Prohibitorum, ("Index of Prohibited Books"). Included on the list is Pier Angelo Manzolli's Zodiacus Vitae a poem first published probably in the early 1530s.
1557 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Joachim du Bellay returns to France from Rome, where he had accompanied (as a secretary) his cousin, Cardinal Jean du Bellay, on a visit that began in 1553.