1562 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 18 January – First performance of Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville's play Gorboduc before Queen Elizabeth I of England. It is the first known English tragedy and the first English-language play to employ blank verse.
1490s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: Immanuel of Rome, Mahberot Imanu'el, published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy 1492: Savonarola, Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis, criticism; Italy Jorge Manrique, Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre ("Couplets on the Death of His Father" or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"), Spanish lyric poem 1493: Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mizan al-Awzan ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems 1494: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, 36,000-line poem translated c.
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.
