1552 in poetry

French

 * Jean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline
 * Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard
 * Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes
 * Pierre de Ronsard, France:
 * Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550)
 * Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets
 * Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur

Other

 * Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man
 * Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed prophecies

Births

 * January 22 – Walter Ralegh, born 1554 according to some sources (executed 1618), English soldier, politician, courtier, explorer, poet, historian and spy
 * February 8 – Agrippa d'Aubigné (died 1630), French poet, soldier, propagandist and chronicler
 * Also:
 * Jean Bertaut (died 1611), French
 * Abraham Fleming (died 1607), poet, translator and antiquarian
 * Alonso de Ledesma, born this year, according to many sources, or 1562, according to many others (died 1623), Spanish
 * Edmund Spenser, born about this year (died 1599), English
 * Seyhulislam Yahya (died 1644), Ottoman Empire
 * Cvijeta Zuzorić (died 1648), Ragusan

Deaths

 * Bernardim Ribeiro (born 1482), Portuguese
 * Satomura Shokyu 里村昌休 (born 1510), Japanese leading master of the linked verse renga after the death of Tani Sobuko in 1545
 * Alexander Barclay (born 1476), English/Scottish poet
 * Giglio Gregorio Giraldi (born 1479), Italian scholar and poet