14th century in poetry

British Isles

• 1327 – The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II".
• After 1350 – The
  Pearl Poet writes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Northern England
  .
• c. 1367 (earliest likely date) – William Langland (presumably) writes Piers Plowman.
• Late 1368? – Geoffrey Chaucer composes his first major poem, The Book of the Duchess.
• 1375 – Barbour composes The Brus, the earliest poem in vernacular Early Scots.
• 1381: May 30–November – Peasants' Revolt in England. Preacher John Ball apparently cites the poem Piers Plowman (which is revised during this decade) and John Gower includes an account of the events in his Vox Clamantis.
• 1386: October – Geoffrey Chaucer is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires to Kent (in South East England) where he may work on The Canterbury Tales.^[2]
• Hendregadredd Manuscript, containing the Welsh Poetry of the Princes anthology, and the Red Book of Hergest, another important Welsh literary manuscript.

Near East

• Yusuf Meddah, Azerbaijani, writes Varqa va Gülşāh, Ghazavātnāmah, Dāstān-i Iblīs 'Aleyh al-La'nah (translated from Arabic and expanded) and Qiṣṣah-i Yūsuf
• Şadi Meddah, probably writes Maqtal-i Hüseyn (1362, translated from Arabic)
• Khāmūshnāmah (c. 1300)

Arab world

• 1340
  )
• 1339
  )
• 1366
  )
• 1423), Catalan Spanish, then Arabic
  poet

• Amir Khusrow, Hasht-Bihisht
  (c. 1302)

• Hafez, poet (born about 1310-1325)
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani
  , Jewish convert into Islam (1247-1318)
• Shams Tabrizi
• Khwaju Kermani
• Mahmoud Shabestari
• Ubayd Zakani
• Shahin Shirazi
• Junayd Shirazi
• Kamal od-Din Esmail
• Jamal ad-Din Isfahani
• Awhadi Maraghai
• Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
• Shah Nimatullah Wali
• Sufi
  , writing in Persian and Hindustani (1253-1325)

Japan

Japanese works published

Imperial poetry anthologies:

• Gyokuyō Wakashū
• Shokusenzai Wakashū
• Shokugoshūi Wakashū
• Fūga Wakashū
• Shinsenzai Wakashū
• Shinshūi Wakashū
• Shingoshūi Wakashū

Japanese poets

• 1301), Kamakura period nobleman and poet; has 86 poems in the official anthology Shokukokin Wakashū
• 1375
  ), poet and Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect who headed many Zen establishments
• 1342) Kamakura period poet and a consort of the 92nd emperor, Fushimi; she belonged to the Kyōgoku school of verse; has poems in the Gyokuyōshū
  anthology
• Rinzai Zen Buddhist priest, poet and sometime mendicant flute player who influenced Japanese art and literature with an infusion of Zen attitudes and ideals; one of the creators of the formal Japanese tea ceremony; well known to Japanese children through various stories and the subject of a popular Japanese children's television program; made a character in anime
  fiction
• Rinzai Zen master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji
  , which was constructed solely for him to teach Zen
• 1155–1225
  ) poet, historian, and Buddhist monk
• Shōwa period
  novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
• Emperor Godaigo) and poet of the Nijō poetic school who is known for his compilation of the Shin'yō Wakashū
  poetry anthology
• Rinzai
  sect who founded temples
• 1459), considered by some the last great poet in the courtly waka tradition; his disciples were important in the development of renga, which led to haiku
• 1372
  ), poet and Buddhist monk

• Yi Saek (1328–1395), Korea
• U Tak (1262–1342), Korea
• Zhao Luanluan (fl. 1341–1367), Yuan dynasty Chinese female erotic poet (death by sati)

South Asia