This article covers 1540 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events Klemens Janicki is appointed poeta laureatus by the Pope Lazare de Baif travels with Pierre de Ronsard (both eventually French poets) to Alsace, where they meet many northern humanists.Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), , "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70 Works published Sir Thomas More, Lady Fortune, publication year uncertainCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, Girolamo Schola, , publication year uncertain, Italian poems on various subjects, including hats, gypsies, geese, horses, mustard caps and sausagesWeb page titled "Poems on everyday things" at the Bodleian Library website, retrieved June 20, 2009. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070909110701/http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/rarebooks/italian_poems_1540.htm Archived 2009-07-22. Tontada Siddhesavara, Shatsthala Jnanamrita

Births Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: January 26 – Florent Chrestien (died 1596), French satirist and Latin poet June 11 – Barnabe Googe (died 1594), English Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantôme, born about this year (died 1614), French soldier, historian, biographer and poet Francisco de Terrazas, born about this year (died c. 1600), Mexican Rhys Cain (died 1614), Welsh language poet Frei Agostinho da Cruz (died 1619), brother of Diogo Bernardes, Portuguese Mathias Holtzwart born about this year (died sometime after 1589), German Jacob Regnart born sometime from this year to 1545 (died 1599), Flemish composer

Deaths Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: October 5 – Helius Eobanus Hessus (born 1488, German, Latin poet

See also

Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature

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