Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

Works published

Scotland

• Anonymous, Golagros and Gawain, a Middle Scots romance written in the late 15th century in alliterative metre; based on two episodes from the First Continuation of Chretien de Troyes' Perceval, ou le Conte du Graal^[1]
• Andrew Cadiou, Porteous of Nobleness, a Scots version of Alain Chartier's Le Breviaire des Nobles^[1]
• William Dunbar:
  • The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, and Other Poems, a fragmentary text of The Flyting, to which is added two short poems, "Wythin a garth", attributed to Henryson, and "Devise, prowes and eke humilitee", by an anonymous author^[1]
  • The Golden Targe^[1]
• Henry the Minstrel, also known as Blind Harry, The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, publication year uncertain; written c. 1478 in Scots verse, supposedly derived from a Latin original; one of the most popular works of Scottish poetry of this era^[1]
• Robert Henryson, Orpheus and Eurydice, published anonymously, publication year uncertain^[1]
• Richard Holland, Buke of the Howlat, publication year uncertain; written c. 1450, in the poem an assembly of birds hears the Owl bitterly complaining against Dame Nature for making him ugly^[1]
• John Lydgate, The Complaint of the Black Knight

Other

• William Hendred, The Pylgrymage of Man, London, Great Britain^[2]
• Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde du genre humain, Walloon poet published in France

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• April 3 – Jean Daurat also spelled "Jean Dorat"; Latin name: "Auratus" (died 1588), French poet and scholar, member of La Pléiade
• Marin Držić, also known as "Marino Darza" and "Marino Darsa" (died 1567), Croatian dramatist, author and poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

• February 4 – Conrad Celtes (born 1459), German and Latin-language poet
• May 13 – Martial d'Auvergne (born 1420), French poet
• Pietro Antonio Piatti (born 1442), Italian, Latin-language poet