1340 In Poetry

Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

Events

1341:
* Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.

Works published

1340:
* Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a '' partimen''

1343:
*, an anonymous '' planh'' for Robert of Naples

1345:
* Petrarch, ''De Vita Solitaria'', ItalyTrager, James, ''The People's Chronology'', New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979

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 " earin 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 " earin 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

See also

* Poetry
* 14th century in poetry
* 14th century in literature
* List of years in poetry
* Grands Rhétoriqueurs
* French Renaissance literature
* Renaissance literature
* Spanish Renaissance literature

Other events:
* Other events of the 14th century
* Other events of the 15th century

15th century:
* 15th century in poetry
* 15th century in literature

Notes

{{Lists of poets

14th-century poetry
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