1340s in poetry

Events

• Petrarch becomes Poet Laureate in Rome.

  Works published

• Raimon de Cornet and Peire de Ladils compose a partimen

• Glorios Dieus, don totz bens ha creysensa, an anonymous planh for Robert of Naples

• Petrarch, De Vita Solitaria, Italy

• Peire Lunel de Montech writes Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens on the occasion of the Black Death

• Dafydd ap Gwilym writes The Girls of Llanbadarn and The Seagull

  Births

• Geoffrey Chaucer, English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat

• Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer.

  Deaths

• Eifuku-mon In, Japanese poet of the Kamakura period and member of the Kyōgoku school of verse
• U Tak, Korean poet

• Ke Jiusi, Chinese landscape painter, calligrapher and poet during the Yuan dynasty

• Manuel Philes, Byzantine poet
• Qiao Ji, Chinese dramatist and poet during the Yuan dynasty

• Abu Es Haq es Saheli, Andalusī-born Arabic poet and architect in the Mali Empire

• Kokan Shiren, Japanese Rinzai Zen patriarch and celebrated poet in Chinese

• Jacopo Alighieri, Italian poet, son of Dante Alighieri
• Sesson Yūbai, Japanese Rinzai priest and poet

• Ibn al-Yayyab Arabic, statesman and poet from the Nasrid kingdom of Granada
• Hamdollah Mostowfi, Persian historian, geographer and epic poet