1574 in poetry

Events

• Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It was published in France in 1577.

  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, Bordeaux, France
• The Mirror for Magistrates
• Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France
• Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Œuvres, France

  Births

• July 1 - Joseph Hall, English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
• Also:
• * Gerolamo Aleandro, Italian, Latin-language poet
• * Richard Barnfield, English poet,
• * Nicholas Bourbon, French clergyman and neo-Latin poet
• * Nicolas Coeffeteau, French theologian, poet and historian
• * John Day born about this year, English poet and playwright
• * Feng Menglong, Chinese writer and poet
• * William Percy, English poet

  Deaths

• June 17 - Louis Des Masures, French
• December - Selim II, Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
• Also:
• * Rocco Boni, Italian, Latin-language poet
• * Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo, Italian poet who wrote in Latin