1520 in poetry

Works published

[[English poetry|Great Britain]]

• Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great
• Anonymous, ("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, , London: Wynkyn de Worde
• Anonymous, publication year conjectural, The Squire of Low Degree, also known as , written about 1500
• Anonymous, , a translation of Terence, Paris
• Christopher Goodwyn, , 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 "[year] 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 "[year] in poetry" article:

• William Dunbar, death year uncertain (born c. 1460), Scottish
• William Hendred (born 1470), English

Notes

References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, {{ISBN. 0-19-860634-6
2. Web page titled [http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/ats/engpo5-toc.html "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.
3. 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