1490s in poetry
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English poet John Lydgate, died c. 1451 but published this decade
Marguerite de Navarre, born 1491
Portrait of Philip Melanchthon (born 1497), by Lucas Cranach the Elder
French poet Clément Marot
Poetry of Scotland
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Poetry of Scotland includes all forms of verse written in Brythonic, Latin, Scottish Gaelic, Scots, French, English and Esperanto and any language in which poetry has been written within the boundarie
1490s in poetry
…Cristobal de Castillejo born about this year (died 1550), Spanish Sir David Lindsay (died c. 1555), Scottish Jean Salmon Macrin (died 1557), French, Latin-language poet…
A page from The Bannatyne Manuscript, the major source for Scottish Medieval and Early Modern poetry
The first part of the text from the Gododdin from the Book of Aneirin, sixth century
The seal of Gavin Douglas as Bishop of Dunkeld
George Buchanan, playwright, poet and political theorist, by Arnold Bronckorst