1526 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Geoffrey Chaucer, posthumously published:
• * The Canterbury Tales, the Pynson edition
• * The House of Fame, publication year uncertain, Pynson edition
• * Troilus and Criseyde, publication year uncertain, published anonymously, Pynson edition

  Italy">Italian poetry">Italy

• Giorgio Anselmo, six books of epigrams, octavo volumes, Parma; in Latin
• Teofilo Folengo, writing under the pen name "Limerno Pitocco da Mantova", Orlandino, a poem of eight cantos, written in rhymed octaves
• Jacopo Sannazaro:
• * De Partu Virginis, epic, religious poem
• * Piscatoria, five books are extant and a fragmentary version of a sixth book

  Other

• Shin Maha Rahtathara, Kogan Pyo, Burma

  Births

• Mahmud Abdülbâkî, known by his pen name "Bâḳî", Ottoman Turk
• Tani Soyo 谷宗養, Japanese renga poet; a rival of Satomura Joha; son of Tani Sobuko

  Deaths

• Jean Marot died about this year, French poet and father of poet Clément Marot