1180s in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
1181:- Bertran de Born's first datable poem, a sirventes
- Ordering of the Senzai Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology
- Bertran de Born composes a planh, "Mon chan fenisc ab dol et ab maltraire", on the death of Henry the Young King. Rigaut de Berbezill composes another, "Si tuit li dol e.l plor e.l marrimen", as does Peire Raimon de Tolosa
- Joseph of Exeter largely completes writing his Latin epic De bello Troiano
- Compilation of the Senzai Wakashū, ordered in 1183
Works published
1180:- Approx. date of Khusraw and Shirin by Nezami
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:1180:
- August 6 – Emperor Go-Toba, Japanese Emperor, calligrapher, painter, musician, poet, critic and editor
- September 4 – Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Provençal troubadour and knight
- Kambar, medieval Tamil poet, author of the Ramavataram
- Peire Cardenal, Occitan troubadour
- March 22 – Ibn al-Farid, Arabic Sufi poet
- Approximate date – Qul Ghali, Muslim Volga Bulgarian Old Tatar poet
- Sa‘di, Persian poet
- Ahmad al-Tifashi, Arabic poet, writer and anthologist, in Tunisia
- Baha' al-din Zuhair, Arabian poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1180:
- Minamoto no Yorimasa, Japanese poet
- John Tzetzes, Byzantine
- Zhu Shuzhen, Chinese poet of the Song dynasty
- Serlo of Wilton, English-born Latin poet and abbot
- Wace, Anglo-Norman poet and author of the Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou
- November 9 – Emperor Gaozong of the Song dynasty
- Anvari, Persian