1556 in poetry

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Rémy Belleau:
- Odes d'Anacréon, a translation into French^[1]
- Petites Inventions^[1]
Pierre de Ronsard, Les Hymnes (see also Hymnes 1555)^[2]

Anonymous, The Knight of Courtesy and the Fair Lady of Faguell, publication year uncertain, composed in the late 14th century, based on 13th century French works^[3]
Roger Bieston, published anonymously, although the author's name is revealed in an acrostic, The Bayte and Snare of Fortune, probably translated from the French version of an Italian original work^[3]
John Heywood, The Spider and the Flie. A parable of the Spider and the Flie, made by John Heywood,^[3] verse allegory^[4] the author's most ambitious work but critics and historians have long dismissed it as awful.^[5]

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

March 7 – Guillaume du Vair (died 1621), French writer and poet
April 27 – François Béroalde de Verville (died 1626), French novelist and poet
August 10 – Philipp Nicolai (died 1608), German poet and composer
November 25 – Jacques Du Perron (died 1618), French
date unknown – Trajano Boccalini (died 1613), Italian satirical poet
date unknown – Abdul Rahim Khan-I-Khana (died 1627), Indian poet in Mughal Emperor Akbar court

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

April 18 – Luigi Alamanni sometimes spelled "Luigi Alemanni" (born c. 1495), Italian poet and statesman
October 21 – Pietro Aretino (born 1492), Italian
November 14 – Giovanni della Casa (born 1503)
Also:
- Fuzûlî (فضولی) (born c. 1483), Ottoman Empire
- Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos (born 1510), Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel
- Nicholas Udall (born 1510 or in 1505), English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
- Thomas Vaux, second Baron Vaux of Harrowden (born 1510), English^[6]
- John Wedderburn (born 1505), Scottish religious reformer and poet

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