title: 1550 in poetry
text: # 1550 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Works published
  
  ### Great Britain
  
  * Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women
  * Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes
  * John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes
  * William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text
  * Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms
  
  ### France
  
  * Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie
  * Pierre de Ronsard:
     * Bocage
     * Odes, the first four books
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * 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
     * 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
  
  ## Deaths
  
  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
  