1554 in poetry
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Works published
France
Great Britain
- Miles Huggarde, The Assault of the Sacrament of the Altar, written 1549; non-elite opposition to the Reformation[4]
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Fourthe Boke of Virgill, Intreating of the Love Betweene Aeneas & Dido (see also Certain Bokes 1557)[4]
- Sir David Lyndsay (also spelled "David Lindsay"), The Monarche, includes other works by the author[4]
Other
- Giraldi Cinthio, Discoursi intorno al comporre dei romanzi, commedie, e tragedie ("Discourses on Composing Romances, Comedies, and Tragedies"), Italian criticism[5]
- Friedrich Dedekind, Grobiana, an enlarged version of Grobianus, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse first published in 1549; enormously popular across Continental Europe (see also Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres 1558)
- Longinus, Dionysi Longini rhetoris praestantissimi liber de grandi sive sublimiorationis genere ... cum adnotationibus, ("On the Sublime"), first modern edition published by Francis Robortello[6] in Basel, Switzerland
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Bálint Balassi (died 1594), Hungarian lyric poet[2]
- Sir Philip Sidney (died 1586), English poet and scholar
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke (died 1628), Elizabethan poet, dramatist, and statesman
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- Gutierre de Cetina (born 1519), Spanish poet and soldier
- Robert Wedderburn died about this year (born c. 1510), Scottish
