4th century in poetry
Roman empire
Poets
- Ephrem the Syrian, Nisibis, writing in Syriac
- Faltonia Betitia Proba
- Ausonius, Bordeaux
- Himerius, from Bithynia writing in Greek
- Prudentius in Tarraconensis, writing in Latin
- Claudian
- Avienius, Volsinii, Etruria, writing in Latin
- Nonnus, Egypt, writing in Greek
- Quintus Smyrnaeus, writing in Greek
- Symphosius, perhaps North African, writing in Latin
- Tryphiodorus, Egypt, writing in Greek
- Palladas, Alexandria, Egypt, writing in Greek
South Asia
- Kalidasa, writing in Sanskrit
- Amara Sinha, Sanskrit grammarian and poet