1340s in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
1341:- Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.
Works published
1340:- Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a partimen
- Glorios Dieus, don totz bens ha creysensa, an anonymous planh for Robert of Naples
1346:The Vows of the Heron written in Flemish
1348:
- Peire Lunel de Montech writes Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens on the occasion of the Black Death
- Dafydd ap Gwilym writes The Girls of Llanbadarn and ''The Seagull''
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:1343:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
- Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer.
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1342:
- Eifuku-mon In, Japanese poet of the Kamakura period and member of the Kyōgoku school of verse
- U Tak, Korean poet
- Ke Jiusi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty
- Manuel Philes, Byzantine poet
- Qiao Ji, Chinese dramatist and poet during the Yuan dynasty
- Abu Es Haq es Saheli, Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect in the Mali Empire
- Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese
- Jacopo Alighieri, Italian poet, son of Dante Alighieri
- Sesson Yūbai, Japanese Rinzai priest and poet
- Ibn al-Yayyab Arabic, statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
- Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian, geographer and epic poet