Overview of the events of 1520 in poetry
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Events
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Works published
Great Britain
- Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great
- Anonymous, A boke of a Ghoostly fader ("A Book of a Ghostly Father"), London: Wynkyn de Worde; (1521 has also been suggested as the most likely year of publication)
- John Constable, Epigrammata
- Robert Copland, L'enuoy of Robert Coplande, London: Wynkyn de Worde
- Anonymous, publication year conjectural, The Squire of Low Degree, also known as Undo Your Dore, written about 1500
- Anonymous, Terens in Englysh, a translation of Terence, Paris
- Christopher Goodwyn, A Lytell Prosses, London: Wynkyn de Worde
- William Hendred, publication year conjectural, The Pilgrimage of Mankind
- John Lydgate, publication year conjectural, Testament
- William Walter (poet), The Spectacle of Louers, London: Wynkyn de Worde
Other
- Ulrich von Hutten, Aufwecker der teutschen Nation, a satiric poem, the author's earliest work in German
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- Hernando de Acuña born about this year (died 1580), Spanish
- Giovanni Bona de Boliris (died 1572), Humanist, poet and writer, who wrote in Latin and Italian
- Thomas Churchyard, birth year uncertain (died 1604), English author and poet
- Natalis Comes (died 1582), Italian mythographer, poet and historian
- Pernette Du Guillet (died 1545), French
- William Lauder, year uncertain (died 1573), Scottish cleric, playwright, and poet
- Madeleine Des Roches born about this year (died 1587), French author and poet who published works jointly with her daughter, Catherine Des Roches; the two also hosted a literary salon which included Scévole de Sainte-Marthe, Barnabé Brisson, René Chopin, Antoine Loisel, Claude Binet, Nicolas Rapin and Odet de Turnèbe
- Alexander Scott (died 1582/1583), Scottish
- Georg Thym born about this year (died 1560), German teacher, poet and writer
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
- William Dunbar, death year uncertain (born c. 1460), Scottish
- William Hendred (born 1470), English
See also
- Poetry
- 16th century in poetry
- 16th century in literature
- Dutch Renaissance and Golden Age literature
- French Renaissance literature
- Grands Rhétoriqueurs
- Renaissance literature
- Spanish Renaissance literature
Notes
- ^ Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-860634-6
- ^ Web page titled "Academic Text Service (ATS)/ Chadwyck-Healey English Poetry Database: / Tudor Poetry, 1500-1603", at Stanford University library website, retrieved September 8, 2009. 2009-09-11.
- Magnusson, Magnus, general editor, Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, and W & R Chambers Ltd, Edinburgh, fifth edition, 1990, ISBN 0-550-16040-X