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Events

Henri III of France revived the Académie du Palais, and Philippe Desportes becomes one of its most active members.^[1]

Rémy Belleau:
- Les Amours et nouveaux échanges despierres précieuses,^[2] also known as Pierres précieuses^[3] poems on the image and arcane powers of precious stone^[4]
- Eclogues sacrées^[5]
Philippe Desportes, an edition of his works^[1]

The Paradise of Dainty Devices, the most popular of the Elizabethan verse miscellanies, anthology
Thomas Achelley, A Most Lamentable and Tragicall Historie^[6]
George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas: a Satyre; Togither with the Complainte of Phylomene, called the first non-dramatic poem in blank verse in the English language; an "estates" satire^[6]
George Whetstone, The Rocke of Regard, mostly verse^[6]

Baptista Mantuanus, Opera Omnia ("Complete Works"), Italian poet writing in Latin, Antwerp
Tulsidas, Ramcharitmanas, Indian poet writing in the Awadhi dialect of Hindi
Jan van der Noot - Das Buch Extasis, Dutch poet writing in German, Cologne

October 7 (baptism) – John Marston (died 1634), English playwright, poet, and satirist
Also
- Charles Fitzgeoffrey (died 1638), English Elizabethan poet and clergyman
- Jean Ogier de Gombauld (died 1666), French playwright and poet
- John Weever (died 1632), English poet and antiquary