11th century in poetry explained
Years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" articles.
Europe
Events
- The surviving Beowulf manuscript likely dates to the early 11th century.[1]
- Emergence of Occitan as a literary language and of the first troubadors.[2]
- King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians around 1070.
- Earliest possible date for The Song of Roland
Poets
Byzantine Empire
Poets
The Arabic World
Poets
Births in the Arabic world
Deaths in the Arab world
The Turkic World
Persia
Works
Persian poets
India
Events
Works
Poets
China
Chinese poets
- Poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile 1080–1086 for political reasons. During this period he writes the first and second Chibifu (Chinese: 赤壁賦 "The Red Cliffs")
- Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037 - 1101), Song dynasty writer, poet, painter, calligrapher, pharmacologist, gastronome and statesman, writing in the shi, ci and fu forms; notable works include the First and Second Chibifu (Chinese: 赤壁賦 The Red Cliffs, 1080–1086), (Chinese: 念奴嬌.赤壁懷古 Remembering Chibi, to the tune of Nian Nu Jiao) and Shui diao ge tou (Chinese: 水調歌頭 Remembering Su Zhe on the Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese: 中秋節)
Japan
Japanese works
Imperial poetry anthologies:
Japanese poets
- Akazome Emon 赤染衛門 (956 - 1041) waka poet of the mid-Heian period; a member of both the Thirty-six Elder Poetic Sages and Kintō's 36 female poetry immortals (or "sages") of the Kamakura period
- Fujiwara no Akisue 藤原顕季 (1055 - 1123), late Heian period poet and nobleman, member of the Fujiwara poetic and aristocratic clan
- Fujiwara no Kintō 藤原公任, also known as "Shijō-dainagon" (966 - 1041), poet and critic; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has poems in anthologies including the Shūi Wakashū, the Wakan rōeishū, and Shūi Wakashū
- Fujiwara no Tametoki 藤原為時 (died 1029?), poet, minor official and governor of various provinces, scholar of Chinese literature and the father of Murasaki Shikibu ("Lady Murasaki")
- Izumi Shikibu 和泉式部 nicknamed "The Floating Lady" 浮かれ女 for her series of passionate affairs (born c. 976 - year of death unknown, sometime after 1033), mid-Heian period poet, novelist and noblewoman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; known for a sequence of affairs at the court in the capital; close friend of Akazome Emon, rival of Lady Murasaki, and mother of poet Koshikibu no Naishi; poetry praised by Fujiwara no Kinto
- Minamoto no Shunrai, also "Minamoto Toshiyori", (c. 1057 - 1129) poet who compiled the Gosen Wakashū anthology; passed over to compile the Goshūi Wakashū, Shunrai's angry polemical, "Errors in the Goshūishū", apparently led Emperor Shirakawa to appoint him to compile the Kin'yō Wakashū imperial anthology, which was itself controversial
- Murasaki Shikibu 紫 式 部, not her real name, which is unknown; often called "Lady Murasaki" (c. 973 - c. 1014 or 1025), Heian period novelist who wrote The Tale of Genji, poet, and a maid of honor of the imperial court
- Nōin 能因, lay name: Tachibana no Nagayasu 橘永愷 (988 - c. 1051), late Heian period poet and monk; one of the "Thirty-six Medieval Poetry Immortals"
- Sei Shōnagon 清少納言 (c. 966 - 1017), middle Heian Period author, poet and court lady who served Empress Teishi/Empress Sadako; best known as the author of The Pillow Book
Notes and References
- Web site: Beowulf . The British Library . 17 March 2019.
- Web site: Provençal literature. Encyclopedia Britannica. en. 17 March 2019.
- Book: Fee . Christopher R. . Mythology in the Middle Ages: Heroic Tales of Monsters, Magic, and Might . 2011 . ABC-CLIO . 9780313027253 . 108 . en.
