Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
England
Peter Beverley, The Historie of Ariodanto and Ieneura
Thomas Churchyard:
Churchyard's Round
Churchyardes Farewell
Churchyardes Lamentacion of Freyndshyp
Thomas Drant, translation (from the Latin of Horace's Ars Poetica) A Medicinable Morall (see also Horace his Arte of Poetrie 1567)
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
October 6 (birth year uncertain) — Marie de Gournay, also known as Marie le Jars, demoiselle de Gournay (died 1645), French writer, author of feminist tracts and poet; a close associate of Michel de Montaigne; buried in the Saint-Eustache Church in Paris
November 26 – Francesco Bracciolini (died 1645), Italian
Also:
Giambattista Basile (died 1632), Italian poet, courtier and collector of fairy tales
Thomas Bastard (died 1618), English poet and clergyman
John Hoskins (died 1638), English poet, classicist and judge
Luisa Carvajal y Mendoza (died 1614), Spanish aristocrat, religious poet and author and Catholic missionary to England
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 25 – Louise Labé (born 1526), French
September 5, 6 or 7 – Suleyman the Magnificent (born ca. 1495), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
September 7 – Martin Bošňák (born ca. 1500), Slovak
September 27 – Marco Girolamo Vida (born 1485), Italian, Latin-language poet
October 31 – Richard Edwardes (or Edwards, born 1525), English poet and playwright
November 17 – Annibale Caro (born 1507), Italian
