1584 in poetry

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

France

 * Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du monde, unfinished.
 * Pierre de Ronsard, the collective in-folio edition of his works
 * Honoré d'Urfé, La Sireine

Great Britain

 * Robert Greene, The Debate between Folly and Love, translated from the French of part of Louise Labbe's Débat de Folie et d'Amour, London: Ponsonby; many editions in the 16th, 17th and 19th centuries
 * King James VI, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie
 * Anthony Munday, I Serve a Mistress
 * Thomas Phaer, The Thirteen Books of Aeneidos, Boox 10–12 translated by Thomas Twyne; Book 13 by Maffeo Vegio (see also The Seven First Bookes 1558, The Nyne First Bookes 1562, The Whole Twelve Bookes 1573)
 * Clement Robinson "and Divers Others", A Handful of Pleasant Delights

Other

 * Jan Kochanowski, Fraszki ("Trifles"), Poland

Births

 * February 12 – Barlaeus, also known as Kaspar van Baerle (died 1648), Dutch
 * September 15 – Georg Rudolf Weckherlin (died 1653), German
 * Also:
 * Francis Beaumont (died 1616), English playwright and poet
 * Anna Ovena Hoyer born (died 1655), German
 * Anna Visscher (died 1651), Dutch artist, poet, and translator
 * Georg Rodolf Weckherlin born (died 1653), German
 * Diederich von dem Werder born (died 1657), German

Deaths

 * March 10 – Thomas Norton (born 1532), politician and poet
 * August 22 – Jan Kochanowski (born 1530), Pole who published poetry in Polish and Latin
 * Also:
 * Johann Beltz (born 1529), German
 * Lucas de Heere (born 1534), Flemish portrait painter, poet and writer
 * Guy Du Faur, Seigneur de Pibrac (born 1529), French jurist and poet
 * Sur, died sometime from 1581 to this year (born 1478 or 1479), Indian, Hindi poet and saint who wrote in the Brij Bhasha dialect
 * 1584/1585/1586: Ulpian Fulwell (born 1545/1546), English Renaissance theatre playwright, satirist and poet