1120s in poetry

Events

1124:

• First draft of the Kin'yō Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology, completed

1127:

• Second and final draft of the Kin'yō Wakashū, an imperial Japanese poetry anthology, completed

Births

Death years link to the corresponding "[year] 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:

1121:

• Khaqani (died 1190), (approx.) Persian

1125:

• Lu You (died 1210), Chinese Song dynasty poet

1126:

• Fan Chengda (died 1193), Song
• Anvari (died 1189), Persian

1127:

• Yang Wanli (died 1206), Chinese Song dynasty poet

1128:

• Alain de Lille (died 1202), French theologian and poet, writing in Latin
• Ruzbihan Baqli (died 1209), Persian poet, mystic, and sufi

Deaths

Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

1121:

• Masud Sa'd Salman (born 1046), Persian

1123:

• December 4 - Omar Khayyám (born 1048), Persian mathematician, philosopher, astronomer and presumed poet
• Fujiwara no Akisue (born 1055), Japan

1125:

• Mu'izzi (born 1048), Persian poet laureate of Sanjar, master of the Persian panegyric qasideh

1126:

• William IX of Aquitaine (born 1071), an early Occitan troubador

1127:

• February 7 - Ava (born 1060), German poet

1129:

• Minamoto no Shunrai (born 1057), Japan

References

References

1. Rexroth, Kenneth. (1970). "Love and the turning year; one hundred more poems from the Chinese". [New York, New Directions Pub. Corp.].