1558 in poetry

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

Events

 * Elizabeth I ascends the throne of England

Works published

 * Joachim du Bellay, France:
 * Des Antiquités de Rome ("Antiquities of Rome")
 * Les Regrets, melancholy satire, a sonnet sequence, including "Heureux qui comme Ulysse"
 * Divers Jeux Rustiques
 * Poésies latines
 * Friedrich Dedekind, Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, a poem written by a German in Latin elegiac verse; enormously popular across Continental Europe (an enlarged version of Grobiana of 1554, which was in turn an enlarged version of Grobianus 1549)
 * Giovanni Della Casa; Italy:
 * Lyric Poems
 * Galateo
 * Abd al-Rahman Mushfiqi, Diviani Mataibat, satires, Persian

Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * October 24 – Szymon Szymonowic born (died 1629), Polish humanist, poet and playwright, called "the Polish Pindar"
 * Also:
 * Abraham Fraunce, born this year or 1560, (died 1593), English poet
 * Robert Greene (died 1592), English author best known today for his pamphlet containing a polemic attack on William Shakespeare
 * Thomas Kyd (died 1594), English dramatist and poet
 * Thomas Lodge (died 1625), English dramatist and writer of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods
 * Chidiock Tichborne (died 1586), English conspirator and poet
 * William Warner (died 1609), English poet
 * Dinko Zlatarić (died 1613), Croatian poet and translator

Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Mellin de Saint-Gelais (born 1491), French poet of the Renaissance and Poet Laureate of Francis I of France
 * Francisco Sa de Miranda (born 1495), Portuguese
 * Cassandra Fedele, (born 1465), Italian, Latin-language poet