— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad
Thomas Campion, Poemata
Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars
Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bible
Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions
Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune
Roger Cotton:
An Armour of Proofe: Brought from the tower of David, to fight against Spannyardes, and all enimies of the trueth
A Spirituall Song: Conteining an historicall discourse from the infancie of the world, until the present time
Sir John Davies, published anonymously, Orchestra; or, A Poem of Dauncing
John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint
Michael Drayton:
Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603)
The Tragicall Legend of Robert Duke of Normandy: [with] The legend of Maltilda; The legend of Piers Gaveston
Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets
Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax (also known by the shorter title Metamorphosis of Ajax), a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court
Gervase Markham, The Poem of Poems; or, Sions Muse
Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven
William Smith, Chloris; or, The Complaint of the Passionate Despised Shepheard
Edmund Spenser:
Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591
Prothalamion; or, A Spousall Verse in Honour of the Double Marriage of Ladie Elizabeth and Ladie Katherine Somerset
The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1–3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609)
William Warner, Albions England, fourth edition (12 books); see also Albions England 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, A Continuance of Albions England 1606
Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances
Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
September 4 – Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer
September – James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright
Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet
Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet
Georg List (born 1532), German
Henry Willobie (born 1575), English
