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
- Salh d'Escola enters a cloister in Bergerac and gives up composing
- Bertran de Born's last datable poem
- 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
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
1193:
1196:
1198:
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1190:
- Khaqani Shirvani, Persian
- Saigyō Hōshi, Japan
1196:
- Alfonso II of Aragon, an Occitan troubadour
- Basava, writing in Kannada
- Guilhem de Berguedan, troubadour
- Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- Owain Cyfeiliog, one of the Welsh Poets of the Princes
- Ermengarde, Viscountess of Narbonne, patron of troubadours
1199:
- April 6 - Richard I of England, Poitevin and Occitan poet