1518 in poetry

Events

• Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for use in St Paul's School (London).

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Anonymous, Cock Laurel's Boat, publication year uncertain; Cock Lorell led a gang of thieves in the early 16th century
• Alexander Barclay, Fifth Eclogue (see also Eclogues 1530, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas 1521
• Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• Francesco Uberti (humanist) (born 1440), Italian, Latin-language poet

Deaths

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• Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (born 1398 or 1440), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India

Notes

References

1. Mantuanus, Baptista [https://books.google.com/books?id=iZxfz7v5gN4C&pg=PA52&dq=%22Eclogues+of+Mantuan%22&ei=F9UQSouqO6P2yATG7OyNBg#PPA29,M1 ''The Eclogues of Baptista Mantuanus''], edited by Wilfred Pirt Mustard, The Johns Hopkins press, 1911, retrieved via Google Books, May 17, 2009
2. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
3. Web page titled [http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp?ordine=crono "Tra Medioevo en rinascimento"] at Poeti di Italia in Lingua Latina website (in Italian), retrieved May 14, 2009. [https://archive.today/20240524093522/https://www.webcitation.org/5h5lnIRZh?url=http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/poetiditalia/indice.jsp%3Fordine=crono Archived] 2009-05-27.