1400s in poetry explained
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
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Births
Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
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- Gilbert Hay, or perhaps "Sir Gilbert the Hay", who may have been a different person; last mentioned this year (died 1455), Scottish poet and translator
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- Liu Jue (died 1472), Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher, and poet
Deaths
Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
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- Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1343), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat
- Jan of Jenštejn (born 1348), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer
- Kamal Khujandi (born unknown), Persian(Tajik) Sufi and Persian ghazal poet
- William Langland (born 1332), conjectured author of the 14th-century English dream-vision Piers Plowman
- Franco Sacchetti (born 1335), Italian poet and novelist
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See also