Clément Marot,
Théodore de Bèze and
Pierre CertonLa 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:
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
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abKurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003,
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^Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954),
ISBN0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
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abPreminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
ISBN0-19-860634-6
^"Switzerland" article, Encyclopædia Britannica, 1911 edition, Volume XXVI, p 265, retrieved via Google Books May 11, 2009.
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