1576 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
- Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.
Works published
France">French poetry">France
- Rémy Belleau:
- * Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses, also known as Pierres précieuses poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone
- * Eclogues sacrées
- Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works
Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain
The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology- Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie
- George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire
- George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse
Other
- Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia, Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
- Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
- Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne
Births
- October 7 - John Marston, English playwright, poet, and satirist
- Also
- * Charles Fitzgeoffrey, English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
- * Jean Ogier de Gombauld, French playwright and poet
- * John Weever, English poet and antiquary
Deaths
- January 19 - Hans Sachs, German Meistersinger
- Girolamo Muzio, Italian, Latin-language poet
- Mavro Vetranović, Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
- Lu Zhi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet