1340s in poetry

Events

1341:

• Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.

Works published

1340:

• Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a partimen

1343:

• Glorios Dieus, don totz bens ha creysensa, an anonymous planh for Robert of Naples

1345:

• Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria, Italy

1346:

• The Vows of the Heron written in Flemish (approximate date)

1348:

• Peire Lunel de Montech writes Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens on the occasion of the Black Death

c. 1340–1349:

• Dafydd ap Gwilym writes The Girls of Llanbadarn and The Seagull

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:

1343:

• Geoffrey Chaucer (died 1400), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat

1348:

• Jan of Jenštejn (died 1400), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer.

Deaths

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

1342:

• Eifuku-mon In (born 1271), Japanese poet of the Kamakura period and member of the Kyōgoku school of verse
• U Tak (born 1262), Korean poet

1343:

• Ke Jiusi (born 1290), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty

1345:

• Manuel Philes (born 1275), Byzantine poet
• Qiao Ji (born unknown), Chinese dramatist and poet during the Yuan dynasty

1346

• Abu Es Haq es Saheli (born 1290), Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect in the Mali Empire

1347:

• Kokan Shiren (born 1278), Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese

1348:

• Jacopo Alighieri (born 1289), Italian poet, son of Dante Alighieri
• Sesson Yūbai (born 1290), Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

1349:

• Ibn al-Yayyab (born 1274) Arabic, statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
• Hamdollah Mostowfi (born 1281), Persian historian, geographer and epic poet

Notes

References

1. Trager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979