1509 in poetry

Events

Works published

Great Britain">English poetry">Great Britain

• Anonymous, Richard Coeur de Lion, written about 1300, a mix of historical and romance elements
• Antoine de la Sale, anonymously published, publisher: Wynkyn de Worde; a translation of the original work
• Alexander Barclay, also known as The Ship of Fools, translated mostly from Latin and French versions of the satire Narrenschiff, also known as Stultifera Navis 1494 by Sebastian Brandt ; London: Wynkyn de Worde
• Stephen Hawes:
• * London: Wynkyn de Worde
• * on the coronation of Henry VIII; London: Wynkyn de Worde
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• Henry Watson,, translated from J. Drouyn's French prose version of Sebastian Brandt's 1494 satire Narrenschiff, also known as Stultifera Navis

  Other

• Laurentius Corvinus publishes Copernicus' Latin translation of the Letters, Byzantine Greek poetry by Theophylactus Simocatta
• Helius Eobanus Hessus, Idyls, German writing in Latin
• Jean Marot, Le Voyage de Venise; France

  Births

• April 25 - Thomas Vaux,, English court poet
• July 10 - John Calvin, French Protestant religious leader and hymnodist
• August 3 - Étienne Dolet, French writer, poet and humanist
• Date not known
• * Annibale Cruceio, Italian, Latin-language poet
• * Kanaka Dasa, Indian Kannada poet, philosopher, musician and composer from Karnataka

  Deaths

• Pietro Antonio Piatti died this year or later, Italian, Latin-language poet
• Juraj Šižgorić, Croatian, Latin-language poet