Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, The Phoeix Nest, anthology with poems by Thomas Lodge, Nicholas Breton, Sir Walter Ralegh and others; three elegies on Sir Philip Sidney, the "Phoenix" of the title, open the volume
Barnabe Barnes, Parthenophil and Parthenophe, contains sonnets, madrigals, elegies and odes
Anthony Chute, Shore's Wife
Henry Constable, Spirituall sonnettes, to the honour of God: and hys saintes, written but unpublished at this time
Michael Drayton, Idea: the shepheards garland, Fashioned in nine eglogs
Giles Fletcher, the Elder, published anonymously, Licia, or Poemes of Love
Robert Henryson, published anonymously, The Testament of Cresseid, first appeared in Thynne's edition of Chaucer's works in 1532
Thomas Lodge, Phillis: Honoured with pastorall sonnets, elegies and amorous delights
Henry Lok, Sundry Christian Passions Contained in Two Hundred Sonnets (see also Ecclesiastes 1597)
Thomas Morely, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Three Voyces verse and music (see also Cazonets 1597)
George Peele, The Honour of the Garter
William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, probably the author's first published work and printed from his own manuscript; in the author's lifetime his most frequently reprinted work (second edition, 1594)
Torquato Tasso, Gerusalemme conquistata, a rewriting of the author's Gerusalemme liberata of 1581, Italy
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
April 3 – George Herbert (died 1633), Welsh poet, orator and priest
June 24 – Abraham von Franckenberg (died 1652), German mystic, author, poet and hymn-writer
Also:
Barten Holyday (died 1661), English clergyman, author and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
August 19 – Antonio Veneziano (born 1543), Italian poet who wrote in the Sicilian language
May 30 – Christopher Marlowe (born 1564), English playwright, poet and translator; murdered at Deptford
Also:
Jeong Cheol, who wrote under the pen names "Gyeham" and "Songgang" (born 1536), Korean statesman and poet
Abraham Fraunce (born between 1558 and 1560), English poet
Judah Moscato (born 1530), Italian rabbi, poet, and philosopher
Maciej Stryjkowski (born 1547), Polish-Lithuanian historian, writer and poet
Xu Wei (born 1521), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist
