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

Events

Rémy Belleau, a commentary on Pierre de Ronsard's Second Livre des Amours, criticism^[1]
Jacques Grévin, Olime, containing odes, a pastoral, satirical sonnets and love sonnets; also including poems by Joachim Du Bellay and Rémy Belleau^[1]
Pierre de Ronsard, France:
- Discours
- Oeuvres ("Works"), first edition^[2]

Anonymous, Dane Hew, publication year conjectural (sometime from this year to 1584); comic tale of a lecherous monk murdered by an enraged husband, in which the corpse is moved back and forth between the murder scene and an abbey^[3]
William Baldwin, The Funeralles of King Edward the Sixt^[3]
Thomas Churchyard, The Contention Betwyxte Churchyard and Camell, upon David Dycers Dreame^[3]
Barnabe Googe, The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–3, translation of Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae (c. 1528); see also, editions of 1561, 1565^[3]
John Heywood, A Fourth Hundred of Epygrams ("Fourth Hundred" actually means "fifth"; see also An Hundred Epigrammes 1550, Works 1562^[3]
Ann Lok, Sermons of John Calvin including (as Part 2), Meditation of a Penitent Sinner: Written in maner of a paraphrase upon the 51. Psalme of David — generally regarded as the first sonnet sequence in English^[3]^[4]
Edward More, The Defence of Women, a reply to The Schole House of Women, which was anonymously published in 1541 (other replies Edward Gosynhyll's The Prayse of all Women and A Dyalogue Defensyve for Women against Malycyous Detractours by Robert Burdet, both 1542); Great Britain^[3]

Bernardo Tasso, L'Amadigi, Italian epic poem published in Venice
Judah Zarco, Leḥem Yehuda ("Judah's Bread"), Hebrew work published in Istanbul^[5]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

August 4 – Sir John Harington, sources differ on whether he was born this year or in 1561 (died 1612), English courtier, author, poet and inventor of a flush toilet
Also:
- Henry Chettle, birth year uncertain (died c. 1607), English playwright, writer and poet
- William Fowler, birth year uncertain (died 1612), Scottish poet, writer, courtier and translator
- Alexander Hume, birth year uncertain (died 1609), Scottish
- Christopher Middleton, birth year uncertain (died 1628), English poet and translator
- Sheikh Muhammad (died 1650), Indian Marathi language religious leader and poet
- Anthony Munday (died 1633), English dramatist and miscellaneous writer
- John Owen born about this year (died 1622), Welsh poet writing in Latin

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

January 1 – Joachim du Bellay (born c. 1522), French poet
April 19 – Philipp Melanchthon died (born 1497), German professor, theologian and poet
August 12 – Thomas Phaer, also spelled Phaire, Faer, Phayre, Phayer (born c. 1510), English lawyer, pediatrician, author, translator and poet
December 21 – Georg Thym (born c. 1520), German teacher, poet and writer
Approximate date – Hwang Jini (born c. 1506), Korean poet

^ ^a ^b France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
^ 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), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Carmi, T., The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse, p 125, Penguin, 1981, ISBN 978-0-14-042197-2