Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or French).
England
Thomas Blundeville, translated from the Latin of Plutarch, Three Morall Treatises, first two treatises in verse
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Woorkes of Geffrey Chaucer, edited by John Stow, based on the Tynne edition of 1532; see also Speght's edition of the Workes 1598)
Barnabe Googe, translated from Marcello Palingenio Stellato's Zodiacus vitae [c. 1528]), The Zodiac of Life, Books 1–4, published in Latin and English (see also The Zodiac of Life 1560, 1565)
Jan Blahoslav, author and editor, Šamotulský kancionál ("Šamotulský hymn-book"), a "cantionale" or hymn-book; a Czech poet published in Polish (see also Ivančice hymn-book 1564, a revised edition)
Julius Caesar Scaliger, Poetices libri septem ("Seven Books of Poetics"), Italian critic published in Lyon, France, very influential, but derivative criticism
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 22 – Francis Bacon (died 1626), English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist, author and poet
April 8 – Dominicus Baudius (died 1613), Dutch Neo-Latin poet, scholar and historian
July 11 – Luis de Góngora (died 1627), Spanish lyric poet
October 27 – Mary Herbert (died 1621), English poet, translator, patron, hostess of a literary salon, and sister of Philip Sidney
Also:
Gaspar Aguilar (died 1623), Spanish poet and dramatist
Bernardo de Balbuena (died 1627), Spanish-born Latin American poet
Henry Lok birth year uncertain (died 1608), English
Nicolas de Montreux (died 1608), French nobleman, novelist, poet, translator and dramatist
Robert Southwell year of birth uncertain (died 1595), English Jesuit priest and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
John Calvin (born 1509), Swiss, French-language Protestant religious leader who wrote hymns
George Cavendish, (born either 1500 or 1494), English
Nikolaus Herman (born c. 1500), German
Olivier de Magny (born 1529), French
Jorge de Montemayor (born 1521), Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
