1390s in poetry explained

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

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, duc d'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^[1]

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