title: 1520 in poetry
text: # 1520 in poetry
  
  Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
  
  ## 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
  