1511 in poetry

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Works published

 * Anonymous, The Friar and the Boy, publication year uncertain (sometime between 1510–1513); a popular fabliau; Great Britain
 * Jean Lemaire de Belges, La Concorde des deux langages, referring to the French and Italian languages, urging cultural unity; Belgian Walloon poet writing in French
 * John Lydgate, The Governance of Kings, also known as Secrets of the Old Philisoffres, [sic] translated from Aristotle's secreta secretorum; Lydgate's last work (see also Robert Copland's Secreta secretorum 1528); Great Britain
 * Cancionero general, anthology of Spanish poetry, published by Hernando del Castillo (revised several times in the 16th century)

Births
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 * November 15 – Joannes Secundus (died 1536), Dutch, Latin-language poet

Deaths
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 * Matthias Ringmann (born 1482), German cartographer and humanist poet