1540 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

Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope
Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists.^[1]

Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertain^[2]
Girolamo Schola, Capituli di M. Girolamo Schola sopra varii suggetti, publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausages^[3]
Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita^[4]

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

January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet
June 11 – Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English
Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet
Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican
Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet
Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese^[5]
Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German
Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer

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

^ 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
^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Web page titled "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110701/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm Archived Archived 2007-09-09 at the Wayback Machine 2009-07-22.
^ Sastri, K. A. Nilakanta (2002) [1955]. A history of South India from prehistoric times to the fall of Vijayanagar. New Delhi: Indian Branch, Oxford University Press. p. 362. ISBN 0-19-560686-8.
^ Preminger, Alex; Brogan, T. V. F.; et al. (1993). The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications.