1522 in poetry explained

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

Works published

• Biernat of Lublin, Zywot Ezopa ("The Life of Aesop"), published about this year, Poland^[1]
• Robert Copland, Ipomadon, publication year uncertain; derived from the Anglo-Norman Ipomedon (c. 1190) of Hue de Rotelande^[2]
• Thomas Murner, Of the Great Lutheran Fool, a verse satire against Martin Luther; the "Great Lutheran fool" is a personification of all those who were misled by Lutheranism; the author's most famous work; Germany^[3]

Births

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

• Approximate date
  • Joachim du Bellay (died 1560), French poet
  • Siôn Tudur (died 1602), Welsh language poet

Deaths

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

• June 30  - Johann Reuchlin (born 1455), German humanist scholar and poet
• September  - Gavin Douglas (born c. 1474), Scottish poet and bishop

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
2. Cox, Michael, editor, The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature, Oxford University Press, 2004,
3. Thomas, Calvin, A History of German Literature, New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1909, retrieved December 14, 2009