1550 in poetry

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

Great Britain

 * Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women
 * Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes
 * John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes
 * William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text
 * Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms

France

 * Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie
 * Pierre de Ronsard:
 * Bocage
 * Odes, the first four books

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * 12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
 * Also:
 * Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
 * Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish
 * Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
 * Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
 * Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
 * Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
 * Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet
 * Syed Sultan (died 1648), Bengali poet

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
 * June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
 * June 13 – Veronica Gambara (born 1485), Italian poet, stateswoman and political leader
 * November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
 * Also:
 * Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
 * Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
 * Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian