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

Events

Nicholas Breton:
- The Arbor of Amorous Devises, anthology partly by Breton, probably compiled by the printer, Richard Jones; reprints 10 poems from Brittons Bowre of Delights 1591^[1]
- Auspicante Jehova^[1]
John Dowland, The First Booke of Songes or Ayres of Fowre Partes verse and music (see also Second Booke 1600, Third and Last Booke 1603)^[1]
Michael Drayton, Englands Heroicall Epistles (expanded in 1598; reprinted in The Barrons Wars 1603)^[1]
Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes^[1]
Henry Lok, Ecclesiastes, Otherwise Called the Preacher^[1]
Gervase Markham, translated from a lost original work by Genevieve Petau de Maulette, Devoreux^[1]
Thomas Middleton, The Wisodome of Solomon Paraphrased^[1]
Thomas Morley, Cazonets; or, Little Short Songs to Foure Voyces, verse and music (see also Canzonets 1593)^[1]
Robert Parry, Sinetes Passion Uppon his Fortunes^[1]
Robert Tofte, Laura: The Toyes of a Traveller; or, The Feast of Fancie, contains a statement, likely untrue, that more than 30 of the poems in the book are not by Tofte^[1]
Nicholas Yonge, Musica Transalpina. Cantus, verse and music (see also Musica Transalpina 1588

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

February 24 – Vincent Voiture (died 1648), French poet and writer
May 31 – Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (died 1654), French writer and poet writing verses in both French and Latin
December 23 – Martin Opitz von Boberfeld (died 1639), German
Also:
- Johan van Heemskerk (died 1656), Dutch poet
- Christopher Harvey (died 1662), English^[1]
- Claude de Malleville (died 1634), French
- Rachel Speght (death year not known), English polemicist and poet
- Wang Wei (died 1647), Chinese prostitute and poet

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

June 6 – William Hunnis (birth year not known), English
June 9 – Joseph of Anchieta (born 1534), Spanish Jesuit missionary, poet and playwright^[2]
Also:
- Fernando de Herrera (born c. 1534), Spanish
- George Turberville, also spelled "Turbervile", death year uncertain (born c. 1544), English poet and translator

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Kurian, George Thomas, Timetables of World Literature, New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, ISBN 0-8160-4197-0