1518 in poetry

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Events

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

Works published

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

See also

• Poetry
• 16th century in poetry
• 16th century in literature
• French Renaissance literature
• Grands Rhétoriqueurs
• Renaissance literature
• Spanish Renaissance literature

Notes