1551 in poetry

Events

Works published

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

  Births

• Bhai Gurdas, Sikh scholar, poet and the scribe of the Adi Granth
• Siméon-Guillaume de La Roque, French
• George Whetstone year uncertain, English poet and author

  Deaths

• Ludovico Pasquali, Italian author and poet
• Sin Siamdang, Korean painter, poet, embroiderer, calligrapher, scholar of Confucian literature and history