1550 in poetry

Overview of the events of 1550 in poetry

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12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
Also:
- Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
- Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish^[5]
- Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
- Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
- Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
- Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
- Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet
Syed Sultan (died 1648), Bengali poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
June 13 – Veronica Gambara (born 1485), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader
November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
Also:
- Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
- Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
- Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Joachim du Bellay" p 43
^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^ "La vie de Louise Labé" Archived 2009-02-04 at the Wayback Machine, a chronology, retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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