1574 in poetry

Events

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It is published in France in 1577.
• Tulsidas begins work on his major poem, Ramcharitmanas.

Works published

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, La Muse chrétienne, a theoretical work that advocates a Christian poetry; published along with several didactic poems, including Judith, Uranie and Le Triomphe de la foi, Bordeaux, France
• The Mirror for Magistrates (anthology)
• Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Œuvres ("Works"), France

Births

• July 1 – Joseph Hall (died 1656), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
• Also:
  • Gerolamo Aleandro (died 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Richard Barnfield (died 1620), English poet,
  • Nicholas Bourbon (died 1644), French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
  • Nicolas Coeffeteau (died 1623), French theologian, poet and historian
  • John Day born about this year (died c. 1640), English poet and playwright
  • Feng Menglong (died 1645), Chinese writer and poet
  • William Percy (died 1648), English poet

Deaths

• June 17 – Louis Des Masures (born c. 1515), French
• December – Selim II (born 1524), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
• Also:
  • Rocco Boni, Italian, Latin-language poet
  • Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo (born 1507), Italian poet who wrote in Latin

Notes

References

1. 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, "Guillaume Du Bartas" p 169
2. Web page titled [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603"], at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. 2009-09-11.
3. Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979
4. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.