1576 in poetry

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 poet, playwright 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