title: 1558 in poetry
text: # 1558 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## Events
  
  * Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England
  
  ## Works published
  
  * Joachim du Bellay, France:
     * Des Antiquités de Rome ("Antiquities of Rome")
     * Les Regrets, melancholy satire, a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"
     * Divers Jeux Rustiques
     * Poésies latines
  * Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549)
  * Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
     * Lyric Poems
     * Galateo
  * Abdurrahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian
  
  ## Births
  
  Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
  * Also:
     * Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet
     * Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
     * Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet
     * Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
     * Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet
     * William Warner (died 1609), English poet
     * Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator
  
  ## Deaths
  
  Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
  
  * Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
  * Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese
  * Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet
  