Arthur Golding, Metamorphosis, Books 1–15, (translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses; see also The fyrst fower bookes1565; many editions into the 17th century)[2]
The Eglogs of the Poet B. Mantuan Carmelitan, Turned into English Verse, translation and adaptation from Baptista Spagnuoli MantuanusAdolescentia seu Bucolica)[2]
The Heroycall Epistles of ... Publius Ovidius Naso, in Englishe Verse, translation of Ovid's Heroides, many editions[2]
Isabella Whitney, The Copy of a Letter, Lately Written in Meter by a Young Gentlewoman: to her Unconstant Lover, publication year conjectural;[2] earliest known volume of English language secular poetry published by a woman
^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, "Phillipe Desportes" p 157
^ abcdeCox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN0-19-860634-6
^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
^Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications