1574 in poetry
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Events
- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It is published in France in 1577.[1]
- 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,[2] Bordeaux, France[1]
- The Mirror for Magistrates (anthology)
- Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France[3]
- Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Åuvres ("Works"), France
Births
- July 1 â Joseph Hall (died 1656), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
- Also:
- Gerolamo Aleandro (died 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet[4]
- 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
