1518 in poetry

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Events

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

Great Britain

 * 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) (born 1440), Italian, Latin-language poet

Deaths
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 * Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (born 1398 or 1440), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India