1521 in poetry

Events

Works published

• Anonymous,
• Anonymous, Christmas Carols, including "" and ""
• Alexander Barclay, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas, the author's "Fourth Eclog"
• Henry Bradshaw, The Life of St. Werburgh
• Andrew Chertsey, The Passyon of Oure Lorde, translated from French with additional verses interspersed in the text
• Robert Copland, English:
• * Introductory poem to The Passyon of Our Lorde, London: Wynkyn de Worde
• * Introductory verse to The Myrrour & the Chyrche, London: Wynkyn de Worde
• Marko Marulić, Judita, Croatian poem, a landmark in Croatian literature, printed in Venice by Guglielmo da Fontaneto on August 13, and published three times during the author's life
• John Skelton, "The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng", publication year uncertain

  Births

• Anne Askew born about this year, also spelled "Anne Ayscough", English poet and Protestant martyr who was persecuted as a heretic; the only woman on record to have been tortured in the Tower of London, before being burnt at the stake
• Sir Thomas Chaloner the elder, English
• Jorge de Montemayor, year uncertain, Portuguese novelist and poet, who wrote almost exclusively in Spanish
• Pontus de Tyard born about this year, French, poet and priest, a member of "La Pléiade"
• Xu Wei, Chinese painter, poet and dramatist

  Deaths

• May 10 - Sebastian Brant, German