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1521 in poetry

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1521 in poetry

-- Lines 12-21, "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng" by John Skelton. The poem is thought to have been first published this year.

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Works published

  • Anonymous, A boke of a Ghoostly fader ("A Book of a Ghostly Father"), London: Wynkyn de Worde 1520 has also been suggested as the most likely year of publication)
  • Anonymous, Christmas Carols, including "A caroll of huntynge" and "A carol bringyng in the bores heed"
  • Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog" (see also Eclogues 1530, Fifth Eclogue 1518)
  • Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St. Werburgh
  • Andrew Chertsey, The Passyon of Oure Lorde, translated from French with additional verses interspersed in the text
  • Robert Copland, English:
  • Introductory poem to The Passyon of Our Lorde, London: Wynkyn de Worde
  • Introductory verse to The Myrrour & the Chyrche, London: Wynkyn de Worde
  • Marko Marulić, Judita ("Judith"), Croatian poem, a landmark in Croatian literature, printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto on August 13, and published three times during the author's life (written in 1501)
  • John Skelton, "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng", publication year uncertain (reprinted in Skelton's Certain Books 1545)

    • Births

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

  • Anne Askew born about this year, also spelled "Anne Ayscough" (died 1546), English poet and Protestant martyr who was persecuted as a heretic; the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London, before being burnt at the stake
  • Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder (died 1565), English
  • Jorge de Montemayor, year uncertain (died 1561), Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
  • Pontus de Tyard born about this year (died 1605), French, poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade"
  • Xu Wei (died 1593), Chinese painter, poet and dramatist

    • Deaths

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

  • May 10 – Sebastian Brant (born c.1457), German

    • References

    1521 in poetry Wikipedia
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