— From Sir John Harington, A New Discourse of a Stale Subject, called the Metamorphosis of Ajax Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events Works published in English Anonymous, King Edward the Fourth and the Tanner of Tamworth, a ballad Thomas Campion, Poemata Thomas Churchyard, A Pleasant Discourse of Court and Wars Henoch Clapham, Peter Colse, Penelopes Complaint; or, A Mirrour for Wanton Minions Anthony Copley, A Fig for Fortune Roger Cotton: Sir John Davies, published anonymously, John Dickenson, The Shepheardes Complaint Michael Drayton: Mortimeriados, a long poem on the Wars of the Roses, in ottava rima (revised as The Barrons Wars 1603) Bartholomew Griffin, Fidessa, a sequence of sonnets Sir John Harington, , a satire for which Harrington was banished from the English court Gervase Markham, Christopher Middleton, The Historie of Heaven William Smith, Edmund Spenser: Fowre Hymnes, published with the second edition of Daphnaida 1591 The Second Part of the Faerie Queene: Containing the fourth, fifth and sixth books (books 1–3 first published in 1590; see also Faerie Queene 1609) William Warner, , fourth edition (12 books); see also 1586, second edition 1589, third edition 1592, fifth edition 1602, 1606 Works published in other languages Francisco Rodrigues Lobo, Romances Alonso Pinciano, Filosofía antigua poética ("Antique Poetic Philosophy"), Spanish criticism Births September 4 – Constantijn Huygens (died 1687), Dutch poet and composer September – James Shirley (died 1666), English poet and playwright Xiao Yuncong (died 1673), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet Deaths October 3 – Florent Chrestien (born 1540), French satirist and Latin poet Bargeo (born 1517), Italian, Latin-language poet Georg List (born 1532), German Henry Willobie (born 1575), English Ou Daren (born 1516), Ming dynasty poet and scholar See also Poetry 16th century in poetry 16th century in literature Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature Elizabethan literature English Madrigal School French Renaissance literature Renaissance literature Spanish Renaissance literature University Wits Notes 16th-century poetry Poetry