1140s in poetry

This article covers 1140s in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Works published

1147:

Bernard Silvestris's Cosmographia presented to the Pope

1148/1149:

Ysengrimus by Nivardus.

Births

Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article. There are conflicting or unreliable sources for the birth years of many people born in this period; where sources conflict, the poet is listed again and the conflict is noted:
1140:

Beatritz de Dia, French trobairitz
Xin Qiji, Chinese Song dynasty poet and military leader
Dietmar von Aist, an early Minnesänger

1141:

Nizami Ganjavi, Persian romantic epic poet

1142:

Farid al-Din Attar, Persian

1145:

Ibn Jubayr, geographer, traveler and poet from al-Andalus
Attar Neyshapuri, Persian Muslim poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer

1147:

Raimbaut of Orange, Occitan troubadour

1149:

Chand Bardai, Hindu Brahmin and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
1141:

Yehuda Halevi, Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus

1142:

Yue Fei, Song
Peter Abelard, French, writing in Latin

1143:

Adib Sabir, Persian

1147:

Jaufré Rudel, an Occitan troubadour

1148:

Am'aq, Persian poet that carried the title amir al-shu'ara
Bernard Silvestris, a Latin poet in France