William Byrd,Psalmes, Sonets & Songs of Sadnes and Pietie, Made into Musicke of Five Parts, verse and music[1]
Thomas Deloney,A New Ballet of the Straunge and Most Cruell Whippes which the Spanyards Had Prepared to Whippe and Torment English Men and Women, a ballad[1]
George Puttenham, authorship uncertain,Arte of English Poesie, the first draft is thought to have been written in the 1560s, with revisions thereafter, up to its publication;[1] the most systematic and comprehensive treatise of the time on poetry; "contrived into three bookes: the first of poets and poesies [a general history of poetry and descriptions of various forms], the second of proportion [onprosody and the measures in use in English verse], the third of ornament [on style, the distinctions between written and spoken language and other matters]" the work concludes with lengthy observations on good manners
Alonso de Ercilla,La Araucana, an epic poem about the conquest of Chile; the first part originally appeared in1569, the second part was published for the first time om1578 (together with the first part), the third part was published for the first time this year (together with the first and second parts);Spain
^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),ISBN0-8093-0135-0, "Jean-Antoine de Baif" p 132
