1390s in poetry

Events

• 25 November – Eustache Deschamps completes his treatise on verse, L’Art de dictier et de fere chansons, balades, virelais et rondeaulx.
• Gruffudd Llwyd active in Wales.

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:

1392:

• Alain Chartier (died 1430), French poet and political writer

1394:

• Antonio Beccadelli (died 1471), Italian poet, canon lawyer, scholar, diplomat, and chronicler
• Charles, Duke of Orléans (died 1465), French
• Ikkyū (died 1481), eccentric, iconoclastic Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and poet

1395:

• Michault Taillevent (died 1451), French

1397:

• Ausiàs March (died 1459), Valencian poet
• Nōami (died 1471), Japanese painter and renga poet in the service of the Ashikaga shogunate

1398:

• Kabir, some dispute with his years of birth and death (died 1518), mystic composer and saint of India, whose literature has greatly influenced the Bhakti movement of India
• Inigo Lopez de Mendoza (died 1458), Spanish

Deaths

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

1390:

• Hafez (born 1315), Persian lyric poet

1392

• Lalleshwari (born 1320), Kashmiri poet and mystic

1395:

• 13 March – John Barbour (born c. 1320), Scottish poet and the first major literary voice to write in Scots language
• Peter Suchenwirt (born 1320), Austrian poet and herald

Notes

References

1. Kurian, George Thomas, ''Timetables of World Literature'', New York: Facts on File Inc., 2003, {{ISBN. 0-8160-4197-0