Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to
1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey[3]
John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes1550, Works1562[3]
Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in
English[3][4]
Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in
1541 (other replies
Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by
Robert Burdet, both
1542);
Great Britain[3]
Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"),
Hebrew work published in Istanbul[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
August 4 – Sir
John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in
1561 (died
1612),
English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
^
abFrance, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-866125-8
^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),
ISBN0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^
abcdefgCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 125, Penguin, 1981,
ISBN978-0-14-042197-2
Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to
1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey[3]
John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes1550, Works1562[3]
Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in
English[3][4]
Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in
1541 (other replies
Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by
Robert Burdet, both
1542);
Great Britain[3]
Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"),
Hebrew work published in Istanbul[5]
Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
August 4 – Sir
John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in
1561 (died
1612),
English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
^
abFrance, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
ISBN0-19-866125-8
^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),
ISBN0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^
abcdefgCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 125, Penguin, 1981,
ISBN978-0-14-042197-2