15th century in poetry explained

Events

Per Raff Lille, Mariaviser ("Songs to Mary"), Denmark^[1]
("The Great Rhymed Chronicle"), Sweden^[1]
1402 - 1403 - Christine de Pisan, Le Livre du chemin de long estude, describing a trial of the faults of this world in the "Court of Reason"^[2]
1403 - Christine de Pisan, La Mutacion de Fortune ("The Changes of Fortune")^[2]
c.1434 - John Lydgate, The Life of St. Edmund, King and Martyr
c.1470 - 1485 - Pietru Caxaro, Il Cantilena, oldest known Maltese text
c.1480s - Robert Henryson, cycle The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian in Scotland
1473 - 1480 - Maladhar Basu, 'Sri Krishna Vijaya (শ্রীকৃষ্ণবিজয়, "Triumph of Lord Krishna"), Bengal

Axayacatl (1449-1481), huey tlatoani (supreme leader or emperor) of Tenochtitlan and poet
Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin (mid 15th-early 16th centuries) wise man, poet, white eagle from Tecamachalco
Cacamatzin (1483-1520), tlatoani of Texcoco and poet
Chichicuepon (15th century) poet from Chalco (altépetl)
Cuacuauhtzin (1410-1443), tlatoani (ruler) of Tepechpan wrote a poem about his betrayal by Nezahualcoyotl.
Macuilxochitzin (c. 1435-?), daughter of Tlacaelel
Nezahualcoyotl (tlatoani) (1402-1472), ruler of Texcoco (altepetl), poet, and architect
Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately loyal to the Aztec Empire or to Tlaxcala.)
Temilotzin (end of 15th century-1525), born in Tlatelolco (altepetl) and Tlatoani of Tzilacatlan
Tochihuitzin coyolchiuhqui, (late 14th-mid 15th centuries) Tlatoani and poet from Teotlatzinco, son of Itzcoatl^[3]
Xicotencatl I (1425-1522) tlatoani of Tizatlan (Tlaxcala)

Arakida Moritake 荒木田守武 (1473 - 1549), the son of Negi Morihide, and a Shinto priest; said to have excelled in waka, renga, and in particular haikai
Ikkyū 休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun 1394 - 1481), eccentric, iconic, 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
Shōtetsu 正徹 (1381 - 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
Sōgi 宗祇 (1421 - 1502), Japanese Zen monk who studied waka and renga poetry, then became a professional renga poet in his 30s
Yamazaki Sōkan 山崎宗鑑, pen name of Shina Norishige (1465 - 1553), renga and haikai poet, court calligrapher for Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshihisa; became a secluded Buddhist monk following the shōgun's death in 1489

Bhalan (c. 1426 - 1500), Indian, Gujarati-language poet^[4]
Chandidas (চন্ডীদাস) (born 1408 CE) refers to (possibly more than one) medieval Indian Bengali-language poet
Meerabai (मीराबाई) (1498-1547), alternate spelling: Meera, Mira, Meera Bai; Hindu poet-saint, mystical poet whose compositions, extant version of which are in Gujarati and a Rajasthani dialect of Hindi, remain popular throughout India
Nund Reshi (1377 - 1440), Indian, Kashmiri-language poet
Zainuddin (fl. 1470s), Bengali-language poet

Preminger, Alex and T. V. F. Brogan, et al., The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, 1993. New York: MJF Books/Fine Communications
Olsen, Kirsten, Chronology of Women's History, p 55, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1994,,, retrieved via Google Books on May 26, 2009
Book: Trece Poetas del Mundo Azteca. Miguel Leon-Portilla. Universidad Nacinal Autonoma de Mexico. 1978 . Mexico City. 2nd, 1972. Spanish. Thirteen Poets of the Aztec World.
Mohan, Sarala Jag, Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature" (Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996,, retrieved December 10, 2008