"[year] in poetry" article: October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet Poetry portal Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature...

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article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1540. July 22 – Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by Pope Paul III...

on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest...

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter. It has been described as "probably the most common...

Catherine Howard (c. 1523 – 13 February 1542) was Queen of England from July 1540 until November 1541 as the fifth wife of King Henry VIII. She was the daughter...

before Adam Mickiewicz Joachim Bielski [pl] (1540–1599); royal secretary, poet and historian. He wrote in Polish and Latin. Son of Marcin Bielski. Adam...

epic poem written in 1540 by Sufi poet Malik Muhammad Jayasi, who wrote it in the Hindustani language of Awadhi, and originally in the Persian Nastaʿlīq...

an Uzbek state in Central Asia from 1501 to 1785, founded by the Abu'l-Khayrid dynasty, a branch of the Shaybanids. From 1533 to 1540, Bukhara briefly...

most splendid ages of English literature. In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian...