Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Anonymous, publication year conjectural, A Gest of Robin Hood
Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Guy of Warwick, related to the Anglo-Norman Gui de Warewic (c. 1232–1242)
Anonymous, Sir Bevis of Hampton, translated c. 1300 from the Anglo-Norman Boeve de Haumtone c. 1200
Anonymous, Sir Eglamour of Artois, written in the mid-14th century
Geoffrey Chaucer, published anonymously, publication year conjectural, Mars and Venus, an amalgamation of the author's The Complaint of Mars and The Complaint of Venus
John Lydgate, published anonymously, publication year conjectural, The Virtue of the Mass, also called the Interpretacio Misse
Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), published about this year, Sweden
Erasmus, De Laudibus Britanniae, a Latin ode in which the author calls John Skelton, appointed tutor to Prince Henry of England, "unum Britannicarum literarum lumen ac decus", and congratulates the prince for having so fine a teacher.
Pierre Gringore, le Château d’Amours, France
Singiraja, Maha Basavaraja Charitra, India
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
December 6 - Nicolaus Mameranus (died c. 1567), Luxembourgian soldier and Latin-language historian and poet
Erasmus Alberus, birth year uncertain (died 1553), German humanist, reformer and poet
Shlomo Halevi Alkabetz (died 1580), Greek kabbalist and poet
Antonius Arena, also known as "Antoine Arènes" (died 1544), French jurist and poet
Eustorg Beaulieu (died 1552), French
John Bellenden (died about 1548), English
Bonaventure des Périers, born about this year (suicide 1544), French author and poet
George Cavendish, born this year according to one source but another states 1494 (died about 1561), English
Hayâlî (خيالى) (died 1557), Ottoman Turkish
Nikolaus Herman, birth year uncertain (died 1561), German hymnodist
Marcello Palingenio Stellato, born this year or 1503 (died 1543), Italian, Latin-language poet
Ludovico Pasquali (died 1551), Italian author and poet
Christoff Wirsung, birth year uncertain (died 1571), German
Wu Cheng'en born 1500 or 1505 (died c. 1580), Chinese novelist and poet of the Ming Dynasty
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
June 23 - Lodovico Lazzarelli (born 1450), Italian, Latin-language poet, philosopher, courtier and magician
Bhalam (born c. 1426), Indian, Gujarati-language poet
Serafino Ciminelli, also known as "Serafino Aquilano" (born 1466), Italian poet, singer, author and actor
Robert Henryson, last known to be active about this year (flourished from c. 1460), Scottish makar poet
Michele Marullo (born 1453), Italian, Latin-language poet
Per Raff Lille, died about this year (born c. 1450), Danish poet
Giovanni Mattia Tabarino (born c. 1420), Italian, Latin-language poet
