1360s in poetry
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Events
1361:- Guillaume de Machaut writes the Dit de la fontaine amoureuse
- November 30 - The Nagarakretagama, a Javanese eulogy chronicling the journey of the Majapahit king, Hayam Wuruk, through his kingdom, is completed by Mpu Prapanca
- Guillaume de Machaut completes Le voir dit
- Earliest likely date for the writing of Piers Plowman in Middle English, presumably by William Langland; it includes the earliest known reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood"
- September 12 - Death of English Plantaganet heiress Blanche of Lancaster at Tutbury Castle aged 26, inspiring Geoffrey Chaucer's first major poem, The Book of the Duchess.
- Approx. date - Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as ''Il Canzoniere''
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:1360:
- Jean Petit, French theologian, poet and professor
- Christine de Pizan, Italian poet writing courtly poetry in French
- Thomas Hoccleve, English poet
- Approximate date – Imadaddin Nasimi, Turkic Ḥurūfī and mystical poet writing in Azerbaijani, Persian and Arabic
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1361:
- Philippe de Vitry, French composer, music theorist and poet
- Zhu Derun, Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty