1574 in poetry
# 1574 in poetry

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

## Events

* Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas begins work on his major poem, Semaine. It is published in France in 1577.
* 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, Bordeaux, France
* The Mirror for Magistrates (anthology)
* Pierre de Ronsard, La Franciade, France
* Mellin de Saint-Gelais, Œuvres ("Works"), France

## Births

* July 1 – Joseph Hall (died 1656), English bishop, satirist, moralist, and poet
* Also:
   * Gerolamo Aleandro (died 1629), Italian, Latin-language poet
   * 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

## Deaths

* June 17 – Louis Des Masures (born c. 1515), French
* December – Selim II (born 1524), Ottoman Empire sultan and poet
* Also:
   * Rocco Boni, Italian, Latin-language poet
   * Girolamo Amalteo of Oderzo (born 1507), Italian poet who wrote in Latin
