14th century in poetry

Aztec Empire

• 14th century — Tlaltecatzin of Cuauhchinanco writes his poem.
• late 14th-mid 15th centuries — Tochimhuitzin of Coyolchighuihqui, son of Itcoatl writes several poems in Nahuatl.

  Europe

• 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets in Toulouse.
• 1360 – The future English poet Geoffrey Chaucer is captured by the French during the Reims campaign of the Hundred Years' War and ransomed by King Edward III of England.

  Works

• The Divine Comedy, written by Dante Alighieri c.1308-21 in the Tuscan dialect of Italian.
• Petrarch writes the Africa in Latin, for which he was crowned Poet Laureate, and the Canzoniere in Italian, critical in the development of the sonnet tradition.
• Der Busant written in Middle High German, early 14th century; earliest surviving manuscript fragment c.1380.
• Lamentations of Mary, first recorded Hungarian language poem, is transcribed at the beginning of the century.
• Eric Chronicles, 1320–1321, Sweden.
• 1310–1314 – Roman de Fauvel written by Gervais de Bus and Chaillou de Pesstain, France.
• 1330–1343 – The Book of Good Love written by Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, Spain.
• 1398 – Anselm Turmeda, also known as "Abdullah at-Tarjuman" عبد الله الترجمان, Llibre dels bons amonestaments, Spanish work by a poet who later converts to Islam and writes in Arabic.

  British Isles

• 1327 – The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II".
• After 1350 – The Pearl Poet writes Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Northern England.
• c. 1367 – William Langland writes Piers Plowman.
• Late 1368? – Geoffrey Chaucer composes his first major poem, The Book of the Duchess.
• 1375 – Barbour composes The Brus, the earliest poem in vernacular Early Scots.
• 1386: October – Geoffrey Chaucer is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires to Kent where he may work on The Canterbury Tales.
• Hendregadredd Manuscript, containing the Welsh Poetry of the Princes anthology, and the Red Book of Hergest, another important Welsh literary manuscript.

  Arab world

• Ibn Juzayy
• Safi al-din al-Hilli,
• Ibn Nubatah al-Misri,
• Anselm Turmeda, also known as "Abd-Allah at-Tarjuman", Catalan Spanish, then Arabic poet

  Persian language

Persian-language poets

• Hafez, poet
• Rashid-al-Din Hamadani, Jewish convert into Islam
• Shams Tabrizi
• Khwaju Kermani
• Mahmoud Shabestari
• Ubayd Zakani
• Shahin Shirazi
• Junayd Shirazi
• Kamal od-Din Esmail
• Jamal ad-Din Isfahani
• Awhadi Maraghai
• Ghiyas al-Din ibn Rashid al-Din
• Shah Nimatullah Wali
• Amir Khusrow, Sufi, writing in Persian and Hindustani

  Works

• Hasht-Bihisht, written by Amir Khusrow about 1302

  Japan

Japanese works published

• Gyokuyō Wakashū
• Shokusenzai Wakashū
• Shokugoshūi Wakashū
• Fūga Wakashū
• Shinsenzai Wakashū
• Shinshūi Wakashū
• Shingoshūi Wakashū

  Japanese poets

• Asukai Gayu 飛鳥井雅有, also known as "Asukai Masaari", Kamakura period nobleman and poet; has 86 poems in the official anthology Shokukokin Wakashū
• Chūgan Engetsu, poet and Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect who headed many Zen establishments
• Eifuku-mon In 永福門院, also written "Eifuku Mon'in", also known as Saionji Shōko 西園寺しょう子, 西園寺鏱子 Kamakura period poet and a consort of the 92nd emperor, Fushimi; she belonged to the Kyōgoku school of verse; has poems in the Gyokuyōshū anthology
• Ikkyū 一休宗純, Ikkyū Sōjun, 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
• Jakushitsu Genkō 寂室元光, Rinzai Zen master, poet, flute player, and first abbot of Eigen-ji, which was constructed solely for him to teach Zen
• Jien 慈円 poet, historian, and Buddhist monk
• Jinzai Kiyoshi 神西清 Shōwa period novelist, translator, literary critic, poet and playwright
• Munenaga 宗良 親王 Nanboku-chō period imperial prince and poet of the Nijō poetic school who is known for his compilation of the Shin'yō Wakashū poetry anthology
• Sesson Yūbai 雪村友梅, poet and Buddhist priest of the Rinzai sect who founded temples
• Shōtetsu 正徹, 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
• Ton'a 頓阿 also spelled as "Tonna"; lay name: Nikaidō Sadamune 二階堂貞宗, poet and Buddhist monk

  Other in East Asia

• Yi Saek, Korea
• U Tak, Korea
• Zhao Luanluan, Yuan dynasty Chinese female erotic poet

  South Asia

• Vemana translates Ranganatha ramayan into Telugu
• Yerrapragada concludes translation of Mahabharata as Andhra Mahabharatam into Telugu
• Janabai, female Marathi religious poet in the Hindu tradition
• Srinatha, Telugu, popularizes the Prabhanda style
• Nund Rishi, Indian, Kashmiri-language poet

  Decades and years