1350s in poetry

New works

c. 1350:

• Baudouin de Sebourc (French, probably from Hainaut)
• The Tale of Gamelyn (Middle English) c. 1352:
• Wynnere and Wastoure (Middle English) 1355
• Guillaume de Deguileville – Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme

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:

1350:

• Andrew of Wyntoun, also known as Andrew Wyntoun (died 1423), Scottish poet, a canon and prior

1352:

• Vemana born around 1352 (approx.) (died unknown), Telugu poet
• Vidyapati, also known as Vidyapati Thakur and called Maithil Kavi Kokil "the poet cuckoo of Maithili", (born 1448), Indian, Maithili-language poet and Sanskrit writer

1355:

• Anselm Turmeda, also known as "Abd-Allah at-Tarjuman" عبد الله الترجمان (died 1423), a poet who wrote in both Catalan Spanish and, after converting to Islam, in Arabic

1357:

• Hugo von Montfort (died 1423), Austrian minstrel and representative of the German Minnesang (songwriters and poets)

Deaths

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

1350:

• Janabai (born unknown), Marāthi religious poet in the Hindu tradition in India
• Juan Ruiz (born 1283), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Spanish poet
• Jyotirishwar Thakur (born 1290), Sanskrit poet and an early Maithili writer

1351:

• Musō Soseki (born 1275), Rinzai Zen Buddhist monk and teacher, and a calligraphist, poet and garden designer

1352:

• Khwaju Kermani (born 1280), Persian Sufi
• Shiwu (born 1272), Chinese Chan poet and hermit

1356:

• Nasiruddin Chiragh Dehlavi (born 1274), mystic-poet and a Sufi Saint of Chishti Order
• Zheng Yunduan (born 1327), Chinese poet in the Yuan Dynasty

Notes