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1576 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

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

    • 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 poet, playwright 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

    • References

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