1400s in poetry
This article covers 1400s in poetry. Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Events
1400:- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completed
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, left incomplete with the author's death this year
- Pere de Queralt appointed ambassador to Tunis
Births
Death years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1400:
1402:
- Nezahualcoyotl, philosopher, poet and ruler of the city-state of Texcoco in pre-Columbian Mexico
- Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year, Scottish poet and translator
- Leon Battista Alberti, Italian author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer
- Sir Thomas Malory, English writer, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
- Georges Chastellain born 1405 or 1415, Burgundians chronicler and poet
- Annamacharya, mystic saint composer of the 15th century, widely regarded as the Telugu "pada kavita pitaamaha" ; husband of Tallapaka Tirumalamma
- Chandidas, refers to medieval poet of Bengal
- Liu Jue, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding " in poetry" article:1400:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
- Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer
- Kamal Khujandi, Persian Sufi and Persian ghazal poet
- William Langland, conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman
- Franco Sacchetti, Italian poet and novelist
- Gilabert de Próixita, Valencian poet with twenty-one extant Occitan pieces
- Jean Froissart, French chronicler and poet