1576 in poetry

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

Events

 * Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.

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

 * 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 ("Complete Works"), 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 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
 * Also
 * Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
 * Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
 * John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary

Deaths

 * January 19 – Hans Sachs (born 1494), German Meistersinger
 * Girolamo Muzio (born 1496), Italian, Latin-language poet
 * Mavro Vetranović (born 1482), Croatian writer, poet and Benedictine friar
 * Lu Zhi (born 1496), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet