1502 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1450s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1450: Fairfax Manuscript thought to have been completed, for John Stanley of Hooton, Cheshire ("Anno 1450" inscribed on folio 1r).
1430s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). John Lydgate, writes The Fall of Princes, sometime from 1431–1438; later published posthumously in 1494, with extracts published separately as Proverbs in c.
1370s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1374: April 23 – English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of King Edward III of England in recognition of his services. 1375: Barbour composes The Brus under the probable commission of Robert II in Scotland. The poem is an innovative blend of vernacular romance and chronicle genres. Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article.
1503 in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
15th century in poetry1445 - Printing press developed in Europe. Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser ("Songs to Mary"), Denmark Stora rimkronikan ("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), Sweden 1402–1403 – Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason" 1403 – Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune") c.1434 – John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr c.1470–1485 – Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text c.
1470s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
1490s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). 1491: Immanuel of Rome, Mahberot Imanu'el, published in Brescia, Italy, among the first books in Hebrew printed in Italy 1492: Savonarola, Apologeticus De Ratione Poeticae Artis, criticism; Italy Jorge Manrique, Coplas de Manrique por la muerte de su padre ("Couplets on the Death of His Father" or "Stanzas for the Death of His Father"), Spanish lyric poem 1493: Mir Ali Shir Nava'i, Mizan al-Awzan ("Scales of Poetic Meters"), Turkish poems 1494: John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes, 36,000-line poem translated c.
1480s in poetryNationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Robert Henryson's cycle The Morall Fabillis probably composed in the 1480s; earliest datable manuscripts of John Barbour's Scottish chivalric epic, Brus, also in this decade.
16th century in poetryHamzah Fansuri writes in the Malay language. The compilation of Romances de los Señores de Nueva España, a collection of Aztec poetry (including pre-Columbian works). John Skelton (c. 1460–1529) George Gascoigne (1535–1578) Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618) Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) William Shakespeare (1564–1616) John Donne (c. 1572–1631) Ben Jonson (c. 1572–1637) Robert Herrick (1591–1674) George Herbert (1593–1633) Young William (c.
