1370s in poetry

Events

Works published

• Barbour composed The Brus under the probable commission of Robert II in Scotland. The poem is an innovative blend of vernacular romance and chronicle genres.

  Births

• Andrea da Barberino, Italian writer and poet
• John Lydgate, English monk and poet
• Felip de Malla, Catalan prelate, theologian, scholastic, orator, classical scholar, and poet

• Andreu Febrer, Catalan Spanish translator of the Divine Comedy

• Nund Reshi, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

  Deaths

• Vedanta Desika, poet, devotee, philosopher and master-teacher

• Seán Mór Ó Dubhagáin, Irish poet

• Gao Qi, Chinese poet of the Ming dynasty
• Petrarch, Italian scholar, poet and one of the earliest Renaissance humanists

• Chūgan Engetsu, Japanese poet, occupies a prominent place in Japanese Literature of the Five Mountains

• Guillaume de Machaut French poet and composer, perhaps the most influential composer of the Middle Ages