title: 1574 in poetry
text: # 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
  