Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

• Anonymous, Loves Garland; or, Posies for Rings, Handkerchers, and Gloves, anthology^[1]
• George Chapman, translator, Batrachomyomachia, publication year uncertain; the original work had been wrongly ascribed to Homer in antiquity; the book contains hymns and epigrams also not written by Homer^[1]
• Thomas Heywood, Gynaikeion; or, Nine Bookes of Various History. Concerninge Women, partly in verse^[1]
• Francis Quarles:
  • Job Militant: With meditations divine and morall^[1]
  • Sions Elegies, Wept by Jeremie the Prophet (see also Sions Sonnets 1625)^[1]

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• August 22 – Jean Renaud de Segrais (died 1701), French poet and novelist
• October 26 – Dosoftei (died 1693), Moldavian Metropolitan, scholar, poet and translator
• December 25 – Johannes Scheffler, also known as "Angelus Silesius" (died 1677), German poetry mystic and poet
• date not known – Edward Howard (died 1700), playwright and poet, brother of Sir Robert Howard^[1]

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Yuan Zhongdao (born 1570), Chinese poet, essayist, travel diarist and official

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature