1290 in poetry

Works

• Heinrich Frauenlob writes Frauenleich and ''Alle Freude verlässt mich''

Births

• Abu Es Haq es Saheli, Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect
• Jyotirishwar Thakur, Sanskrit poet and early Maithili writer
• Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player and first abbot of Eigen-ji
• Ke Jiusi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty
• Sesson Yūbai, Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

Deaths

• Guido delle Colonne Sicilian writer, in Latin
• Shem-Tov ibn Falaquera, Hebrew poet in Al-Andalus
• Tran Thanh Tong, Vietnamese poet and ruler