1526 in poetry
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Irish poetry
The history of Irish poetry includes the poetries of two languages, one in Irish and the other in English. The complex interplay between these two traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to...
or France
French poetry
French poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
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Great BritainEnglish poetryThe history of English poetry stretches from the middle of the 7th century to the present day. Over this period, English poets have written some of the most enduring poems in Western culture, and the language and its poetry have spread around the globe. Consequently, the term English poetry is...
- Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
, posthumously published:- The Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury TalesThe Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey from Southwark to the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at...
, the Pynson edition (see Canturbyry Tales 1477) - The House of Fame, publication year uncertain, Pynson edition (see also The House of Fame 1483)
- Troilus and CriseydeTroilus and CriseydeTroilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it...
, publication year uncertain, published anonymously, Pynson edition (see also Troilus and Criseyde 1483)
- The Canterbury Tales
ItalyItalian poetry-Important Italian poets:* Giacomo da Lentini a 13th Century poet who is believed to have invented the sonnet.* Guido Cavalcanti Tuscan poet, and a key figure in the Dolce Stil Novo movement....
- Giorgio Anselmo, six books of epigrams, octavo volumes, Parma; in LatinLatin poetryThe history of Latin poetry can be understood as the adaptation of Greek models. The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a...
- Teofilo FolengoTeofilo FolengoTeofilo Folengo , who wrote under the pseudonym of Merlino Coccajo or Merlinus Coccaius, was one of the principal Italian macaronic poets.-Biography:...
, writing under the pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
"Limerno Pitocco (Merlin the Beggar) da Mantova", Orlandino, a poem of eight cantos, written in rhymed octaves - Jacopo SannazaroJacopo SannazaroJacopo Sannazaro was an Italian poet, humanist and epigrammist from Naples.He wrote easily in Latin, in Italian and in Neapolitan, but is best remembered for his humanist classic Arcadia, a masterwork that illustrated the possibilities of poetical prose in Italian, and instituted the theme of...
:- De Partu Virginis ("The Virgin's Childbirth"), epic, religious poem
- Piscatoria ("Piscatorial Eclogues"), five books are extant and a fragmentary version of a sixth book
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Mahmud AbdülbâkîBâkîBâḳî was the pen name of the Ottoman Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî...
(محمود عبد الباقى), known by his pen namePen nameA pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
"Bâḳî" (باقى), Ottoman Turk (died 16001600 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Great Britain:* Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered * Nicholas Breton:** Melancholike Humours** Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message **...
) - Louise LabeLouise LabéLouise Labé, , also identified as La Belle Cordière, , was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet...
(died 15661566 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Thomas Churchyard:** Churchyard's Round** Churchyardes Farewell** Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp...
), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:... - Tani SoyoTani Soyo' was the son of Tani Sobuko. Sōyō was known as one of the most talented renga composers of his era. Being mainly known at being a rival of the famed composer, Satomura Joha, who was the leading master of the linked verse after Sōyō's death....
谷宗養 (died 15631563 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-England:* Anonymous, The Courte of Venus, publication year conjectural, revised from the 1538 edition, with several other ballads...
), JapaneseJapanese poetryJapanese poets first encountered Chinese poetry during the Tang Dynasty. It took them several hundred years to digest the foreign impact, make it a part of their culture and merge it with their literary tradition in their mother tongue, and begin to develop the diversity of their native poetry. For...
rengaRenga' is a genre of Japanese collaborative poetry. A renga consists of at least two or stanzas, usually many more. The opening stanza of the renga, called the , became the basis for the modern haiku form of poetry....
poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:- Jean MarotJean MarotJean Marot was a French poet and the father of French Renaissance poet Clément Marot. He is often grouped with the "Grands Rhétoriqueurs"....
died about this year (born c. 1450), FrenchFrench poetryFrench poetry is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in other languages of France.-French prosody and poetics:...
poet and father of poet Clément MarotClément MarotClément Marot was a French poet of the Renaissance period.-Youth:Marot was born at Cahors, the capital of the province of Quercy, some time during the winter of 1496-1497. His father, Jean Marot , whose more correct name appears to have been des Mares, Marais or Marets, was a Norman from the Caen...
See also
- PoetryPoetryPoetry is a form of literary art in which language is used for its aesthetic and evocative qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its apparent meaning...
- 16th century in poetry16th century in poetry-Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry .-England:* John Skelton -Works published:* Hamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language.* The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva...
- 16th century in literature16th century in literatureSee also: 16th century in poetry, 15th century in literature, other events of the 16th century, 17th century in literature, list of years in literature.-Events:1508...
- French Renaissance literatureFrench Renaissance literatureFor more information on historical developments in this period see: Renaissance, History of France, and Early Modern France.For information on French art and music of the period, see French Renaissance....
- Renaissance literatureRenaissance literatureRenaissance Literature refers to the period in European literature that began in Italy during the 14th century and spread around Europe through the 17th century...
- Spanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literatureSpanish Renaissance literature is the literature written in Spain during the Renaissance.-Introduction:The political, religious, literary, and war relations between Italy and Spain since the second half of the 15th century caused a remarkable cultural interchange between these two countries...