1557 in poetry

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Works published

Great Britain

• John Heywood, A Breefe Balet Touching the Traytorous Takynge of Scarborow Castell, patriotic ballad about the capture of Scarborough Castle in April of this year by Thomas Stafford, who held it for two days before the earl of Westmoreland took it
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, Certain Bokes of Virgiles Aeneis, translated from Virgil's Aenid, Books 2 and 4 (Book 4 translation first published in 1554)
• Thomas Tusser, A Hundreth Good Pointes of Husbandrie, describing the farmer's year, month by month (expanded edition 1562; see also Five Hundreth Points 1573)
• Richard Tottel, editor, Songes and Sonettes, written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other,, now better known as Tottel's Miscellany

Other

• Giovanni Battista Giraldi, Ercole, Italy
• Olivier de Magny, Les Souspirs d'Olivier de Magny ("Sighs"), France

Births

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

• Jean de Sponde (died 1595), French poet and writer

Deaths

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• Gutierre de Cetina died about this year (born 1520), Spanish
• Cristovao Falcao died about this year (born 1518), Portuguese
• Hayâlî (خيالى) (born c. 1500) Ottoman
• Salmon Macrin died (born 1490), French, Latin-language 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