1511 in poetry explained

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Works published

• Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain (sometime between 1510 - 1513); a popular fabliau; Great Britain^[1]
• Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian languages, urging cultural unity;^[2] Belgian Walloon poet writing in French
• John Lydgate, The Governance of Kings, also known as translated from Aristotle's secreta secretorum; Lydgate's last work (see also Robert Copland's Secreta secretorum 1528); Great Britain^[1]
• Cancionero general, anthology of Spanish poetry, published by Hernando del Castillo (revised several times in the 16th century)^[3]

Births

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

• November 15  - Joannes Secundus (died 1536), Dutch, Latin-language poet

Deaths

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• Matthias Ringmann (born 1482), German cartographer and humanist poet

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
2. "Jean Lemaire de Belges" article, p 453, in France, Peter, editor, The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French, New York: Oxford University Press,
3. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications