Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Charles Bansley, The Pride of Women
Robert Crowley, One and Thyrtye Epigrammes
John Heywood, An Hundred Epigrammes
William Langland (attributed), Piers Plowman, the B text
Sir Thomas Wyatt, Pentential Psalms
Joachim du Bellay, Musagnoeomachie
Pierre Ronsard:
Bocage
Odes, the first four books
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
12 April – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford (died 1604), English courtier, playwright, poet, sportsman, patron of numerous writers, and sponsor of at least two acting companies
Also:
Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (died 1600), Irish poet part of the Mac Aodhagáin clan
Kasper Miakskowski (died 1622), Polish
Alexander Montgomerie (died 1598), Scottish
Mikolaj Sep Szarzynski born about this year (died c. 1581), Polish
Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz (died 1619), rabbi, poet and Torah commentator
Richard Rowlands (died 1640), Anglo-Dutch antiquarian and writer
Cristóbal de Virués (died 1614), Spanish playwright and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February – Marcantonio Flaminio (born 1498), Italian, Latin-language poet
June 2 – Guillaume Bigot (born 1502), French writer, doctor, humanist and poet in French and Latin
June 12 – Cristobal de Castillejo (born c. 1490), Spanish
November 7 – Jón Arason (born 1484), Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, executed
Also:
Pir Sultan Abdal (born c. 1480), Ottoman Empire
Nicholas Bourbon (born 1503 or 1505), French court preceptor and poet
Gian Giorgio Trissino (born 1478), Italian Renaissance humanist, poet, dramatist, diplomat and grammarian
