1581 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Italian poet Torquato Tasso's epic poem Jerusalem Delivered (La Gerusalemme liberata) is first published complete, a pirated edition printed in Parma being followed by an authorized edition from Ferrara, where the poet is confined in the Ospedale di Sant'Anna. Also this year, Aldus Manutius the Younger prints a selection of Tasso's lyrics and prose in Venice.
1555 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1480s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest datable manuscripts of John Barbour's Scottish chivalric epic, Brus, also in this decade.
1470s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1552 in poetryJean Antoine de Baïf, Les Amours de Méline Joachim du Bellay, XIII Sonnets de l'honnête amour, influenced by Pontus de Tyard Nostradamus, Centuries, a book of prophecies presented in rhymes Pierre de Ronsard, France: Fifth Book of Odes (see also first four books 1550) Les Amours de P. de Ronsard Vandomoys, Ensemble de Bocages, sonnets Oeuvres de l'invention de l'Auteur Thomas Churchyard, A Myrrour for Man Nostradamus, also known as Michel de Notredame or Michel de Nostredame, Centuries, a book of rhymed pr
1502 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
16th century in poetryHamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language. The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works). John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) George Gascoigne (1535–1578) Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) John Donne (c. 1572–1631) Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637) Robert Herrick (1591–1674) George Herbert (1593–1633) Young William (c.
