1360s in poetry

Events

• Guillaume de Machaut writes the Dit de la fontaine amoureuse

• November 30 - The Nagarakretagama, a Javanese epic poem chronicling the journey of the Majapahit king, Hayam Wuruk, through his kingdom, is completed by Mpu Prapanca
• Guillaume de Machaut completes Le voir dit

• Earliest likely date for the writing of Piers Plowman in Middle English, presumably by William Langland; it includes the earliest known reference to "rhymes of Robin Hood"

• Petrarch concludes writing the sequence of Italian sonnets and other poems known as Il Canzoniere

  Births

• Jean Petit, French theologian, poet and professor

• Christine de Pizan, Italian poet writing courtly poetry in French

• Thomas Hoccleve, English poet

• Imadaddin Nasimi, Turkic Ḥurūfī and mystical poet

  Deaths

• Philippe de Vitry, French composer, music theorist and poet

• Zhu Derun, Chinese painter and poet in Yuan Dynasty

• Jakushitsu Genkō, Japanese Rinzai master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji