Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
England
Richard Barnfield, The Affectionate Shepheard
Richard Carew, Godfrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recouverie of Hierusalem, translated from the Italian of the first five books of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberatta
George Chapman, Skia Nyktos. The Shadow of Night, the first two words of the title are in Ancient Greek
Henry Constable, Diana; or, The Excellent Conceitful Sonnets of H.C., the second edition of Diana (first edition 1592)
Samuel Daniel, Delia and Rosamond Augmented; [with] Cleopatra, the third edition of Delia and of Rosamond; first edition of Cleopatra (see also Delia 1592)
Michael Drayton:
Ideas Mirrour, 51 sonnets
Matilda (reprinted in an expanded version, with corrections, in The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy 1596)
Peirs Gaveston Earle of Cornwall
Robert Greene:
Orlando Furioso, published anonymously
See also Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, below
Thomas Heywood, Oenone and Paris
Sir David Lyndsay, Squire Meldrum, also contains The testament of the nobill and vailzeand Squyer Williame Meldrum of the Bynnis
Thomas Lodge and Robert Greene, A Looking Glasse, for London and Englande
Thomas Lodge, The Wounds of Civill War, Lively Set Forth in the True Tragedies of Marius and Scilla, in verse and prose
Thomas Morley, Madrigalls to Foure Voyces, verse and music
John Mundy, editor, Songs and Psalms
William Shakespeare, The Rape of Lucrece, dedicated to Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton; likely printed from the author's own manuscript; reprinted seven times by 1640
Thomas Storer, Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey
Henry Willobie, alternate spellings "Henry Willoby" and "Henry Willoughby", an unidentified author, Willobie His Avisa, the book has a possible association with Shakespeare's sonnets
Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
Jacob Spanmuller, also known as "Jacobus Pontanus", Poeticae institutiones, criticism
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 25 – Maria Tesselschade Visscher (died 1649), Dutch
September 30 – Antoine Gérard de Saint-Amant (died 1661), French
Also:
John Chalkhill, birth year uncertain (died 1642), English
James Howell, birth year uncertain (died 1666), English pamphleteer and poet
Jacques de Serisay (died 1653), French poet and the founding director of the Académie française
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
c. February 7 – Barnabe Googe (born 1540), English pastoral poeet and translator
May 30 – Bálint Balassi (born 1554), Hungarian lyric poet
August 15 (bur.) – Thomas Kyd (born 1558), English dramatist and poet
November 29 – Alonso de Ercilla (born 1533), Spanish
