Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, The Fissher-Mans Tale, verse paraphrase of Robert Greene's Pandosto 1588
Barnabe Barnes, A Divine Centurie of Spirituall Sonnets
Richard Barnfield, Cynthia
Nicholas Breton, Marie Magdalens Love; A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love
Thomas Campion, Poemata
George Chapman, published anonymously, Ovids Banquet of Sence, allegorical recounting of Ovid's courtship of Corinna
Thomas Churchyard, A Musicall Consort of Heavenly Harmonie (Compounded Out of Manie Parts of Musicke) Called Churchyyards Charitie
Samuel Daniel, The First Fowre Bookes of the Civile Warres Betweene the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke (a fifth book later appeared without a title page or a date; see also Poeticall Essayes 1599, Works 1601 (six books), and Civile Warres 1609, the first complete edition, in eight books)
Thomas Edwards, Cephalus and Procris
Stephen Gosson, Pleasant Quippes for Upstart New-fangled Gentlewomen, published anonymously but ascribed to Gosson, a coarse satiric poem
Thomas Lodge, A Fig for Momus, verse satires
Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems, or Syon's Muse
Thomas Morley, editor, First Book of Ballets in Five Voices
George Peele, playwright, The Old Wives Tale (play) printed
Francis Sabie, The Fisher-mans Tale: Of the famous Actes, Life, and Loue of Cassander, a Grecian Knight
Sir Philip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry, English criticism (written between 1580–1583; published for the first time posthumously)
Saint Robert Southwell:
Moeniae
Saint Peters Complaint, with Other Poemes, published anonymously; three editions this year; it is possible there were several manuscripts in circulation before the first printed edition appeared (see also S. Peters Complaint 1616)
Edmund Spenser:
Amoretti and Epithalamion
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, includes "Astrophel: A pastorall elegie upon the death of Sidney", and other laments on the death of Sidney by Sir Walter Ralegh and others
Luís de Camões, Rimas, Portugal
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 4 – Jean Chapelain (died 1674), French poet and writer
Also:
Thomas Carew (died 1640), English poet
Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (died 1676), French poet and playwright
Bihari Lal (died 1663), Hindi poet, wrote the Satasaī (Seven Hundred Verses)
Francesco Pona (died 1655), Italian doctor, philosopher, Marinist poet and writer
Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (died 1640), Polish Jesuit and Latin-language poet
Robert Sempill the younger (died c.1663), Scottish poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
February 21 – Saint Robert Southwell (born c. 1561), English poet and Catholic martyr; executed as a traitor
March 18 – Jean de Sponde (born 1557), French poet, writer, translator and humanist
April 25 – Torquato Tasso (born 1544), Italian
May 25 – Valens Acidalius (born 1567), German, Latin-language poet and critic
Also:
Thomas Edwards (born unknown), author of two Ovid inspired epic poems Cephalus and Procris and Narcissus
Luis Barahona de Soto (born 1548), Spanish
Faizi (born 1547), Indian poet laureate of the Emperor Akbar
