1574 in poetry

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

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