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1558 in poetry
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1490s in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: Immanuel of Rome, Mahberot Imanu'el, published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy 1492: Savonarola, Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis, criticism; Italy Jorge Manrique, Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre ("Couplets on the Death of His Father" or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"), Spanish lyric poem 1493: Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mizan al-Awzan ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems 1494: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, 36,000-line poem translated 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).
1594 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C.
1554 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 [.
1470s in poetry
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16th century in poetry
Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language. The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works). John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) George Gascoigne (1535–1578) Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) John Donne (c. 1572–1631) Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637) Robert Herrick (1591–1674) George Herbert (1593–1633) Young William (c.