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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

George Whetstone joined an English regiment on active service in the Low Countries, where he met fellow English poets George Gascoigne and Thomas Churchyard.

Front of the first edition of Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões

Olivier de Magny, Les Amours d'Olivier de Magny et quelques odes de luy, B. Rigaud, Paris, posthumously published France
Rémy Belleau, Bergerie, mix of prose and verse, including Avril (a revised and expanded edition in which the "seconde journée was added^[1]);first edition 1565; France^[2]
Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade^[3]

Anonymous Rauf Coilyear, Scottish alliterative poem written in the late 15th century^[4]
Luís de Camões, Os Lusiadas, Portugal^[5]
Johann Fischart, New Eulenspiegel in Rhyme, a rewriting of Eulenspiegel into verse; Germany^[6]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

June 8 – Honorat de Porchères Laugier (died 1653), French poet
June 11 – Ben Jonson, date not certain (died 1637), English poet and playwright
January 22 – John Donne (died c. 1631), English poet and Anglican cleric
December 27 – Johannes Vodnianus Campanus (died 1622), Czech poet and playwright
Also:
- Thomas Dekker, birth year not certain (died 1632), English playwright, writer, pamphleteer and poet
- James Mabbe (died 1642), English poet and translator
- Nef'i (died 1635), Ottoman poet and satirist
- Benjamin Rudyerd (died 1658), English politician and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

March 13 – Petar Hektorović (born 1487), Croatian writer, poet and collector
March 27 – Girolamo Maggi (born 1523), Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician and naturalist
July 25 – Rabbi Isaac Luria (born 1534), Jewish mystic and poet in Palestine
November 23 – Agnolo di Cosimo, better known as "Il Bronzino" or "Agnolo Bronzino" (born 1503), Italian Mannerist painter and poet
December 12 – (born unknown), Loredana Marcello, Venetian poet and letter writer
Giovanni Bona de Boliris (born 1520), Humanist, poet and writer, writing in Latin and Italian

^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Rémy Belleau" p 140
^ Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X
^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
^ Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009