1518 in poetry

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Events

Baptista Mantuanus' Eclogues prescribed for use in St Paul's School (London).

Works published

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Anonymous, Cock Laurel's Boat, publication year uncertain; Cock Lorell led a gang of thieves in the early 16th century
Alexander Barclay, Fifth Eclogue (see also Eclogues 1530, The Boke of Codrus and Mynalcas 1521
Sir Thomas More, ''Epigrammata''

Births

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Francesco Uberti (humanist), Italian, Latin-language poet

Deaths

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Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death, mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India