Editing Lyric poetry (section)

===16th century===
In 16th-century Britain, [[Thomas Campion]] wrote [[lute songs]] and [[Sir Philip Sidney]], [[Edmund Spenser]], and [[William Shakespeare]] popularized the [[sonnet]].

In France, [[La Pléiade]], a group including [[Pierre de Ronsard]], [[Joachim du Bellay]], and [[Jean-Antoine de Baïf]], aimed to break with earlier traditions of French poetry, particularly [[Clément Marot|Marot]] and the ''[[grands rhétoriqueurs]]'', and began imitating classical [[Ancient Greek literature|Greek]] and [[Latin literature|Roman]] forms such as the [[ode]]. Favorite poets of the school were [[Pindar]], [[Anacreon (poet)|Anacreon]], [[Alcaeus (comic poet)|Alcaeus]], [[Horace]], and [[Ovid]]. They also produced [[Petrarch]]an [[sonnet cycle]]s.

Spanish devotional poetry adapted the lyric for religious purposes. Notable examples were [[Teresa of Ávila]], [[John of the Cross]], [[Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz]], [[Garcilaso de la Vega (poet)|Garcilaso de la Vega]], [[Francisco Medrano (poet)|Francisco de Medrano]] and [[Lope de Vega]].  Although better known for his epic ''[[Os Lusíadas]]'', [[Luís de Camões]] is also considered the greatest Portuguese lyric poet of the period.

In Japan, the ''naga-uta'' ("long song") was a lyric poem popular in this era. It alternated five and seven-syllable lines and ended with an extra seven-syllable line.