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Works published

Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Seconde Semaine ou Enfance du monde, unfinished.^[1]
Pierre de Ronsard, the collective in-folio edition of his works^[2]
Honoré d'Urfé, La Sireine

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^[3]
King James VI, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie^[4]
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)^[4]
Clement Robinson "and Divers Others", A Handful of Pleasant Delights

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

^ France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, 1993, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-866125-8
^ Weinberg, Bernard, ed., French Poetry of the Renaissance, Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, Arcturus Books edition, October 1964, fifth printing, August 1974 (first printed in France in 1954), ISBN 0-8093-0135-0, "Pierre de Ronsard" p 70
^ Web page titled "Bibliographie de Louise Labé", retrieved May 17, 2009. 2009-05-20.
^ ^a ^b Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
^ Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications

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