1551 in poetry

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Works published

 * Robert Crowley, published anonymously, Philargyrie of Greate Britayne; or, The Fable of the Great Giant
 * Marcantonio Flaminio, Carmina Sacra, posthumous, Italy

Births
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 * Bhai Gurdas (died 1636), Sikh scholar, poet and the scribe of the Adi Granth
 * Siméon-Guillaume de La Roque (died 1611), French
 * George Whetstone year uncertain (died 1587), English poet and author

Deaths
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 * Ludovico Pasquali (born 1500), Italian author and poet
 * Sin Siamdang (born 1504), Korean painter, poet, embroiderer, calligrapher, scholar of Confucian literature and history