1543 in poetry

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Events

 * Pope Paul III issues the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of books forbidden to Catholics (the first official index is started in 1564).
 * Pierre de Ronsard is tonsured in Le Mans, where he met Jacques Peletier.

Works published

 * Juan Boscan and Garcilaso de la Vega, Las obras de Boscan y alqunas de Garcilaso de la Vega, published posthumously, Spain
 * John Hardyng, Chronicle, contains a version of the quest for the Holy Grail; a minor source for Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur of 1485; published posthumously, England
 * Clément Marot, Théodore de Bèze and Pierre Certon La Forme des Prieres et Chantz ecclesiastiques, an edition of the Geneva Psalter; Marot moved to Geneva, Switzerland this year and was commissioned by John Calvin to create rhymed versions of all the Psalms; Marot being unable to complete the work (he died in the fall of 1544), the effort was continued by Bèze; Switzerland, French-language

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * October – Sir Edward Dyer (died 1607), English courtier and poet
 * October 23 – Juan de la Cueva (died c. 1610), Spanish poet and playwright
 * Also:
 * Louis Bellaud (died 1588), French
 * Sherefxan Bidlisi (died 1599), Iranian Kurdish historian, writer and poet
 * Juan de la Cueva (died 1612), Spanish dramatist and poet
 * Thomas Deloney (died 1600), English novelist and balladist
 * Simon Goulart (died 1628) Swiss, French-language clergyman, writer and poet
 * Sebastian Grabowiecki born about this year (died 1607), Polish
 * Bartosz Paprocki (died 1614), Polish and Czech writer, historiographer, translator, and poet
 * Siôn Phylip (died 1620), Welsh language poet
 * Gosvāmī Tulsīdās, also spelled "Tulasī Dāsa" or "Tulsidas"; another source gives his birth year as 1532 (died 1623), Indian Hindu religious poet
 * Antonio Veneziano (died 1593), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * date not known – Sebastian Franck, who called himself "Franck von Word" died this year or in 1542 (born 1499), German freethinker, humanist, radical reformer and poet
 * Marcello Palingenio Stellato, (born 1500), Italian, Latin-language poet