1380s in poetry

Events

• Venetian ambassador Lorenzo de Monacis writes a poem defending Hungarian queens Mary and Elizabeth from charges of murdering Charles II of Hungary.

  Works published

• Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde exact year uncertain

  Births

• Laurent de Premierfait, Latin poet, humanist and translator
• Azari Tusi, Persian poet

• Krittibas Ojha, Bengali poet
• Shōtetsu, Japanese Waka poet

• Badr Shirvani, Persian poet

• Nguyễn Trãi, Vietnamese Confucian scholar, poet, politician and tactician

  Deaths

• Munenaga, imperial prince and a poet of the Nijō poetic school of Nanboku-chō period

• Gidō Shūshin, Japanese luminary of the Zen Rinzai sect, was a master of poetry and prose in Chinese