1556 in poetry

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List of years in poetry (table)
In literature
1553
1554
1555
1556
1557
1558
1559

Works published

France

Great Britain

  • Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works[3]
  • Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work[3]
  • John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood,[3] verse allegory[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.[5]

Births

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Deaths

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See also

Notes

  1. France, Peter, ed. (1995). The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-866125-2.
  2. Appelbaum, Stanley (1991). Introduction to French Poetry. Courier Corporation. ISBN 978-0-486-26711-1.
  3. Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-860634-5.
  4. Kurian, George Thomas (2003). Timetables of World Literature. Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-4197-8.
  5. Rollins, Hyder E.; Baker, Herschel (1954). The Renaissance in England: Non-dramatic Prose and Verse of the Sixteenth Century. p. 77. OCLC 1037540836.
  6. "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500–1603". Stanford University library. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08.
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