Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
England
Richard Barnfield:
The Encomium of Lady Pecunia; or, The Praise of Money
Poems in Divers Humours
Nicholas Breton, A Solemne Passion of the Soules Love
Richard Carew, published anonymously, A Herrings Tale
George Chapman:
Seven Bookes of the Iliades of Homere, Prince of Poets, contains books 1–2, 7–9 (see also Achilles Shield 1598, Homer Prince of Poets 1609, The Iliads of Homer 1611, Homers Odysses 1614, Twenty-four Bookes of Homers Odisses 1615, The Whole Workes of Homer 1616)
Achilles Shield
Thomas Churchyard, A Wished Reformacion of Wicked Rebellion (expanded in 1611 as Queen Anna's New World of Words)
Everard Guilpin, published anonymously, Skialetheia. Or, A Shadow of Truth, in Certaine Epigrams or Satyres
Christopher Marlowe, Hero and Leander, published posthumously and completed by George Chapman (who divided the poem into two sestiads and adding four more written by Chapman himself); described as "this unfinished Tragedy", yet possibly considered complete by Marlowe
John Marston:
The Metamorphosis of Pigmalians Image
The Scourge of Villanie, published under the pen name "William Kinsayder"
Francis Meres, Palladis Tamia. Wits Treasury, valued for its inclusion of a list of plays by Shakespeare; the second in the "Wits Series" (see also Ling, Politeuphuia 1597; Allot, Wits Theater 1599; Wrednot, Palladis Palatium 1604)
Francis Rous, Thule; or, Vertues Historie
Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia, a corrected version of the poem which had originally appeared in a pirated version in 1593, although even this version was not completely free from error. It was prepared under the supervision of his sister, the Countess of Pembroke; in the same volume appeared Astrophel and Stella, also originally published (posthumously) twice in 1593 (first from an unauthorized, corrupt text and in an unauthorized corrected version). Sources differ on the publishing year of this edition, with The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature giving "circa 1597", and other sources, including, Mona Wilson, stating this year.
Joshua Sylvester, The Second Weeke or Childhood of the World, the first part of Sylvester's translation of Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
Robert Tofte:
Alba: The months minde of a melancholy lover
Orlando Inamorato, translated from Matteo Maria Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato
Jean de Sponde, Amours; publication year uncertain; France
Torquato Tasso, Le sette giornate, Italy
Lope de Vega, Spain:
La Arcadia
La Dragontea, an epic poem about Sir Francis Drake
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
March 12 – Guillaume Colletet (died 1659), French
August 7 – Georg Stiernhielm (died 1672), Swedish civil servant, linguist and poet
Also – Johann George Moeresius (died 1657), Polish poet and rector
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
January 9 – Jasper Heywood (died 1535) English Jesuit, poet and translator
June 1 – Thomas Preston (born 1537), English poet and perhaps playwright, a master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
August – Alexander Montgomerie (born 1550), Scottish Catholic courtier and poet
Also – Henri Estienne (born 1528), French philologist, poet and humanist
