1202 in poetry

Events

• Nizami Ganjavi completes Eskandar Nameh, a romance of Alexander the Great
• Peter of Blois resigns as Dean of St Peter's Collegiate Church

Deaths

• Hammad al-Harrani, Muslim scholar, poet, merchant and traveler
• Alain de Lille, French theologian and poet, writing in Latin
• Eugenius of Palermo, amiratus, translator, and poet
• Gaucelm Faidit, Occitan troubadour
• Jakuren, Japanese Buddhist priest and poet