1550 in poetry
# 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
