1505 in poetry

This article covers 1505 in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

Anonymous, Adam bell, Clim of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, an outlaw ballad, reprinted numerous times through the mid-17th century
Anonymous, Octavian, publication year uncertain ; written in the mid-14th century from a French version; among the many themes the work draws on are the St. Eustace legend and the "Calumniated Wife"
Anonymous, Sir Torrent of Portingale, publication year uncertain; written in the late 14th to early 15th century
Alexander Barclay,, published anonymously; publication year uncertain, London: "Imprinted be... Richarde Pynson", translation from the French of Pierre Gringoire

Jean Lemaire de Belges, Belgian Waloon poet writing in French:
* La couronne margaritique, on the death of Philibert II, Duke of Savoy, the second husband of Archduchess Margaret of Austria, to whom the author was court poet;
* Epîtres de l'amant vert, mock epistles presented as having been written by the pet parrot of Marguerite d'Autriche; the parrot dies from its love for the woman; Walloon poet published in France, where he was court poet to d'Autriche
Pietro Bembo, Gli Asolani, a dialogue on courtly love, with poems reminiscent of Boccaccio and Petrarch

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

February 4 - Mikolaj Rej, Polish poet, politician and musician
Also:
* Lodovico Castelvetro born about this year, Italian literary critic
* Giovanni Pietro Astemio, Italian, Latin-language poet
* Nicholas Bourbon in this year or 1503, French court preceptor and poet
* John Wedderburn, birth year uncertain, Scottish religious reformer and poet
* Nicholas Udall, born this year, according to one source, or in 1504, according to others, English playwright, poet, cleric, pederast and schoolmaster
* Georg Wickram, German poet and novelist
* Wu Cheng'en, Chinese novelist and poet

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:

July 17 - Filippo Beroaldo, Italian writer, editor, translator, commentator and poet in Italian and Latin
Also:
* Tito Vespasiano Strozzi died about this year, according to at least some sources, 1425 according to another, Italian, Latin-language poet
* Robert Wydow, English poet, church musician, and religious figure