1190s in poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.

Events

1195:

Folquet de Marselha gives up poetry to take up the religious life

1197:

Salh d'Escola enters a cloister in Bergerac and gives up composing

1198:

Bertran de Born's last datable poem

1199:

Gaucelm Faidit composes a planh on the death of Richard I of England

Works published

1190:

Probable approx. date of The Tale of Igor's Campaign

Nizami Ganjavi, volumes of Khamsa of Nizami, Classical Persian poetryLeyli o Majnun, c. 1192Iskandarnameh, 1194 or 1196–1202Haft Peykar, 1197

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:
1190:

Gonzalo de Berceo, Spanish poet especially on religious themes
Pietro della Vigna, Italian jurist, diplomat, poet, and sonneteer of the Sicilian School
Yuan Haowen, Chinese Sanqu poetry writer

1191:

Janna, Kannada poet

1193:

Shang Dao, Chinese Sanqu poet

1196:

Alberico da Romano, patron and troubadour

1198:

Fujiwara no Tameie, Japanese poet

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:
1190:

Khaqani Shirvani, Persian
Saigyō Hōshi, Japan

1193:

Fan Chengda, Song

1196:

Alfonso II of Aragon, an Occitan troubadour
Basava, writing in Kannada
Guilhem de Berguedan, troubadour

1197:

Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
Owain Cyfeiliog, one of the Welsh Poets of the Princes
Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, patron of troubadours

1198:

Tibors de Sarenom, trobairitz

1199:

April 6 - Richard I of England, Poitevin and Occitan poet