# 1600 in poetry

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

## Works
### Great Britain

* Robert Armin, Quips upon Questions; or, A Clownes Canceite on Occasion Offered (writing under the pen name "Clunnyco de Curtanio Snuffe")
* Nicholas Breton:
** Melancholike Humours
** Pasquils Mad-cap and his Message (published anonymously)
** Pasquils Mistresse; or, The Worthie and Unworthie Woman (published under the pen name "Salochin Treboun")
** Pasquils Passe, and Passeth Not
** The Second Part of Pasquils Mad-cap intituled: The Fooles-cap
* Thomas Deloney (uncertain attribution), Patient Grissell, a ballad based on Book 10, novel X of Boccaccio's Decameron
* John Dowland, The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres (First Booke, 1597; Third and Last Booke, 1603)
* Edward Fairfax, translator (of Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata), Godrey of Bulloigne; or, The Recoverie of Jerusalem
* Gervase Markham, The Teares of the Beloved; or, The Lamentation of Saint John, Concerning the Death and Passion of Christ Jesus our Saviour
* Christopher Marlowe's translation of Lucan's Pharsalia (posthumous)
* Christopher Middleton, The Legend of Humphrey Duke of Glocester
* Thomas Middleton, The Ghost of Lucrece, a sequel to Shakespeare's Lucrece
* Thomas Morley, The First Booke of Ayres; or, Little Short Songs to Sing and Play to the Lute
* John Norden, Vicissitudo Rerum: An elegaicall poeme, of the interchangeable courses and varietie of things in this world
* Samuel Rowlands:
** The Letting of Humors Bood in the Head-vaine
** A Merry Meeting, ordered burned and no copy is now extant (republished under the title The Knave of Cubbes in 1612)
* Thomas Weelkes' Canto
* John Weever, The Mirror of Martyrs; or, The Life and Death of that Thrice Valiant Captaine, and Most Godly Martyre, Sir John Old-castle Knight Lord Cobham

#### Anthologies in Great Britain

* Robert Allott (initialed "R. A.", generally attributed to Allott), editor, Englands Parnassus; or, The Choysest Flowers of our Moderne Poets, with their Poeticall Comparisons
* John Bodenham (published anonymously, usually attributed to him, sometimes to Anthony Munday), editor, Bel-vedere; or, The Garden of the Muses, anthology
* John Flasket, Englands Helicon, English anthology with poems by Edmund Spenser, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Philip Sidney and others

### Other

* Siddha Basavaraja, Bedagina Vachanagalu, anthology, India
* François de Malherbe, Ode à la reine sur sa bienvenue en France, recited at the reception given to Marie de Médicis in Aix; the poem attracted the attention of Henry IV of France, to whose court Malherbe is attached in 1605, France
* Romancero general, anthology, Spain

## Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* January 17 – Pedro Calderón de la Barca (died 1681), Spanish writer, poet and dramatist
* November – John Ogilby (died 1676), Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer
* Also:
** Marin le Roy de Gomberville (died 1674), French poet and novelist
** Piaras Feiritéar (hanged 1653), Irish
** Richard Flecknoe (died 1678), English dramatist and poet
** Petru Fudduni (died 1670), Italian poet writing predominantly in Sicilian
** Johannes Plavius (died unknown), German poet
** Daulat Qazi (died 1638), medieval Bengali poet

## Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
* April – Thomas Deloney (born 1543), English novelist and balladist
* Also:
** Elazar ben Moshe Azikri (born 1533), Jewish kabbalist, poet and writer
** Bâkî باقى pen name Turkish poet Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known as Sultânüş-şuarâ سلطان الشعرا ("Sultan of poets"; born 1526), Turkish poet, called one of the greatest contributors to Turkish literature
** Cyprian Bazylik (born 1535), Polish composer, poet, printer and writer
** Baothghalach Mór Mac Aodhagáin (born 1550), Irish poet of the Mac Aodhagáin clan