1400s in poetry

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

Events

1400:

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight completed (started around 1350)
• Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, left incomplete with the author's death this year

1402:

• Pere de Queralt appointed ambassador to Tunis

Works published

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Births

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

1400:

• 1450
  ), French poet
• 1479), Apabhraṃśa
  poet

• pre-Columbian Mexico

• Sir
  1471), English writer, and author of Le Morte d'Arthur
• 1475), Burgundians
  chronicler and poet

• Telugu "pada kavita pitaamaha" (grand old man of simple poetry); husband of Tallapaka Tirumalamma
• Chandidas (died unknown), refers to (possibly more than one) medieval poet of Bengal

1409:

• 1472
  ), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet

Deaths

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

1400:

• 1343
  ), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
• 1348), Archbishop of Prague
  who was a poet, writer and composer
• Persian ghazal
  poet
• 1332), conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman
• 1335
  ), Italian poet and novelist

• Gilabert de Próixita (born unknown), Valencian poet with twenty-one extant Occitan pieces
• 1337
  ), French chronicler and poet

See also

• Poetry
• 15th century in poetry
• 15th century in literature

Notes