Overview of the events of 1543 in poetry
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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
- Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics (the first official index is started in 1564).
- Pierre de Ronsard is tonsured in Le Mans, where he met Jacques Peletier.
Works published
- Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la Vega, published posthumously, Spain
- John Hardyng, Chronicle, contains a version of the quest for the Holy Grail; a minor source for Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur of 1485; published posthumously, England
- Clément Marot, Théodore de Bèze and Pierre Certon La Forme des Prieres et Chantz ecclesiastiques, an edition of the Geneva Psalter; Marot moved to Geneva, Switzerland this year and was commissioned by John Calvin to create rhymed versions of all the Psalms; Marot being unable to complete the work (he died in the fall of 1544), the effort was continued by Bèze; Switzerland, French-language
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- October – Sir Edward Dyer (died 1607), English courtier and poet
- October 23 – Juan de la Cueva (died c. 1610), Spanish poet and playwright
- Also:
- Louis Bellaud (died 1588), French
- Sherefxan Bidlisi (died 1599), Iranian Kurdish historian, writer and poet
- Juan de la Cueva (died 1612), Spanish dramatist and poet
- Thomas Deloney (died 1600), English novelist and balladist
- Simon Goulart (died 1628) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet
- Sebastian Grabowiecki born about this year (died 1607), Polish
- Bartosz Paprocki (died 1614), Polish and Czech writer, historiographer, translator, and poet
- Siôn Phylip (died 1620), Welsh language poet
- Gosvāmī Tulsīdās, also spelled "Tulasī Dāsa" or "Tulsidas"; another source gives his birth year as 1532 (died 1623), Indian Hindu religious poet
- Antonio Veneziano (died 1593), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- date not known – Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word" died this year or in 1542 (born 1499), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet
- Marcello Palingenio Stellato, (born 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0
- 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
- ^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
- Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- "Switzerland" article, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, Volume XXVI, p 265, retrieved via Google Books May 11, 2009. Archived 2009-05-13.