1520 in poetry
# 1520 in poetry

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## Works published

### Great Britain

* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, Alexander the Great
* Anonymous, A boke of a Ghoostly fader ("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, L'enuoy of Robert Coplande, London: Wynkyn de Worde
* Anonymous, publication year conjectural, The Squire of Low Degree, also known as Undo Your Dore, written about 1500
* Anonymous, Terens in Englysh, a translation of Terence, Paris
* Christopher Goodwyn, A Lytell Prosses, 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
