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1574 in poetry

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

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Events

  • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It was published in France in 1577.

    • Works published

  • Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Muse chrétienne, a theoretical work that advocates a Christian poetry; published along with several didactic poems, including Judith, Uranie and Le Triomphe de la foi, Bordeaux, France
  • The Mirror for Magistrates (anthology)
  • Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France
  • Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Œuvres ("Works"), France

    • Births

  • July 1 – Joseph Hall (died 1656), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
  • Also:
  • Gerolamo Aleandro (died 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Richard Barnfield (died 1620), English poet,
  • Nicholas Bourbon (died 1644), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
  • Nicolas Coeffeteau (died 1623), French theologian, poet and historian
  • John Day born about this year (died c. 1640), English poet and playwright
  • Feng Menglong (died 1645), Chinese writer and poet
  • William Percy (died 1648), English poet

    • Deaths

  • June 17 – Louis Des Masures (born c. 1515), French
  • December – Selim II (born 1524), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
  • Also:
  • Rocco Boni, Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo (born 1507), Italian poet who wrote in Latin

    • References

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