1576 in poetry

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

Events

• Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.

Works published

France

• Rémy Belleau:
• Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses, also known as Pierres précieuses poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone
• Eclogues sacrées
• Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works

Great Britain

• The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
• Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie
• George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire
• George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse

Other

• Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
• Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
• Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

Births

• October 7 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
• Also
• Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
• Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
• John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

Deaths

• January 19 – Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
• Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet
• Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
• Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
• Elizabethan literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes