1600 in poetry

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Great Britain

 * Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered (writing under the pen name "Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe")
 * Nicholas Breton:
 * Melancholike Humours
 * Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message (published anonymously)
 * Pasquils Mistresse; or, The Worthie and Unworthie Woman (published under the pen name "Salochin Treboun")
 * Pasquils Passe, and Passeth Not
 * The Second Part of Pasquils Mad-cap intituled: The Fooles-cap
 * Thomas Deloney (uncertain attribution), Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron
 * John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (First Booke, 1597; Third and Last Booke, 1603)
 * Edward Fairfax, translator (of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem
 * Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour
 * Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (posthumous)
 * Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester
 * Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece
 * Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute
 * John Norden, 
 * Samuel Rowlands:
 * The Letting of Humors Bood in the Head-vaine
 * A Merry Meeting, ordered burned and no copy is now extant (republished under the title The Knave of Cubbes in 1612)
 * Thomas Weelkes' Canto
 * John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham

Anthologies in Great Britain

 * Robert Allott (initialed "R. A.", generally attributed to Allott), editor, Englands Parnassus; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons
 * John Bodenham (published anonymously, usually attributed to him, sometimes to Anthony Munday), editor, Bel-vedere; or, The Garden of the Muses, anthology
 * John Flasket, Englands Helicon, English anthology with poems by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others

Other

 * Siddha Basavaraja, Bedagina Vachanagalu, anthology, India
 * François de Malherbe, Ode à la reine sur sa bienvenue en France, recited at the reception given to Marie de Médicis in Aix; the poem attracted the attention of Henry IV of France, to whose court Malherbe is attached in 1605, France
 * Romancero general, anthology, Spain

Births
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 * January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (died 1681), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
 * November – John Ogilby (died 1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer
 * Also:
 * Marin le Roy de Gomberville (died 1674), French poet and novelist
 * Piaras Feiritéar (hanged 1653), Irish
 * Richard Flecknoe (died 1678), English dramatist and poet
 * Petru Fudduni (died 1670), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
 * Johannes Plavius (died unknown), German poet
 * Daulat Qazi (died 1638), medieval Bengali poet

Deaths
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 * April – Thomas Deloney (born 1543), English novelist and balladist
 * Also:
 * Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (born 1533), Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer
 * Bâkî باقى pen name Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known as Sultânüş-şuarâ سلطان الشعرا ("Sultan of poets"; born 1526), Turkish poet, called one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature
 * Cyprian Bazylik (born 1535), Polish composer, poet, printer and writer
 * Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (born 1550), Irish poet of the Mac Aodhagáin clan