9th century in poetry

Arabic world

Works

• The Book of One Thousand and One Nights is compiled in Baghdad

  Poets

Births of Arabic world poets

• 742 - Ibrahim Al-Mausili
• c. 805 - Abu Tammam
• 820 - al-Buhturi
• 861 - Abdullah ibn al-Mu'tazz
• 897 - Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani

  Deaths of Arabic world poets

• 809 - Abbas Ibn al-Ahnaf
• 813 - Abu Nuwas
• 828:
• * Abu-l-'Atahiya
• * Abu-l-'Atahiya
• 837 - Ibn Duraid
• 845 - Abu Tammam
• 896 - Ibn al-Rumi
• 897 - al-Buhturi

  Turkic world

• Possible early date for the oral development of the Book of Dede Korkut

  Persia

Persian poets

• Rudaki
• Mansur Al-Hallaj
• Shahid Balkhi
• Firuz Mashreqi
• Hanzala Badghisi
• Basam Kurd
• Wasif Sagzi

  Germanic and Celtic Europe

Poets

• Likely period when Cynewulf flourishes in Mercia or Northumbria
• Bragi Boddason flourishes in the Swedish court in the first half of the century, author of Bragi inn gamli Boddason
• Þjóðólfur úr Hvini
• Þorbjörn hornklofi
• Reign of King Alfred the Great, a noted poet in Anglo-Saxon, in Wessex from 871 to 899

  Works

• 9th century:
• * Expansion of Gregorian chant, particularly in the Frankish lands of Europe
• * Cynewulf, The Fates of the Apostles, Juliana, Elene, and Christ II in Old English
• * Llywarch Hen in Welsh
• * Sequence of Saint Eulalia, earliest surviving poem in Old French
• * The Phoenix in Old English
• * Approximate period of Waldere in Old English
• c. 800
• * Pangur Bán in Old Irish
• 830s:
• * Lay of Hildebrand in Old High German
• 880s or 890s:
• * Ludwigslied and Georgslied in Old High German
• 890s:
• * Abbo Cernuus, De bellis Parisiacae urbis, in Latin

  Byzantine Empire and Slavic Europe

Events

• c. 855: Saints Cyril and Methodius develop the Glagolitic alphabet;Cyrillic is developed about the same time in Bulgaria. These alphabets permit translation of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic and other Slavic languages. First development of Slavic literary languages.
• Preslav Literary School and Ohrid Literary School flourish in Bulgaria.

  Poets

• Constantine of Preslav in Bulgaria authors Азбучна молитва , the earliest surviving poetry in Old Church Slavonic.

  East Asia

• The Han-shan poet and Feng-Kan, both part of the Tientai Trio, flourish in China.

  China

• Pi Rixiu, Tang Dynasty poet and magistrate

  Japan

• Ariwara no Narihira 在原業平, waka poet and nobleman; called one of the Six best Waka poets and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Fujiwara no Kanesuke 藤原兼輔, also 中納言兼輔, middle Heian waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has a poem is in the anthology Hyakunin Isshu, others in several imperial poetry anthologies, including Kokin Wakashū and Gosen Wakashū
• Fujiwara no Sadakata 藤原定方, also known as "Sanjo Udaijin" 三条右大臣, father of poet Asatada, cousin and father-in-law of Kanesuke; has a poem in Hyakunin Isshu anthology
• Ki no Tomonori 紀友則, early Heian period waka poet of the court, one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; one of the four compilers of the Kokin Wakashū anthology
• Ki no Tsurayuki 紀貫之 Heian period waka poet, government official and courtier; son of Ki no Mochiyuki; one of four compilers of the Kokin Wakashū anthology; provincial governor of Tosa province and later possibly governor of Suo province
• Kisen 喜撰 also known as "Kisen Hōshi" 喜撰法師, early Heian period Buddhist monk and poet
• Kūkai 空海, also known posthumously as "Kōbō-Daishi" 弘法大師, monk, scholar, poet, and artist who founded the Shingon or "True Word" school of Buddhism, followers of that school usually refer to him by the honorific title "Odaishisama" お大師様
• Lady Ise 伊勢 or Ise no miyasudokoro 伊勢の御息所, waka poet and noblewoman in the Imperial court; granddaughter of waka poet Ōnakatomi no Yoshinobu; born the Fujiwara no Tsugikage of Ise; lover of the Prince Atsuyoshi; a concubine to Emperor Uda; her son by him was Prince Yuki-Akari; has many poems in the Kokin Wakashū anthology
• Minamoto no Kintada 源公忠, also 源公忠朝臣, middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals, along with his son Minamoto no Saneakira; an official in the imperial treasury; has poems in imperial poetry anthologies, starting with the Goshūi Wakashū
• Ōnakatomi no Yorimoto 大中臣頼基, middle Heian period waka poet and nobleman; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Ono no Komachi 小野 小町 or おののこまち, early Heian period waka poet, one of the Rokkasen — the Six best Waka poets; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; noted as a rare beauty and became a symbol of a beautiful woman in Japan
• Ōshikōchi Mitsune 凡河内躬恒, early Heian period administrator and waka poet of the court; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals
• Sakanoue no Korenori 坂上是則, early Heian waka poet; one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals; has a poem in the Hyakunin Isshu anthology
• Sarumaru no Taifu 猿丸大夫, also known as "Sarumaru no Dayū", early Heian period waka poet; one of the Thirty Six Poetic Sages; no detailed histories or legends about him exist, and he may never have existed; some believe he was Prince Yamashiro no Ōe
• Semimaru 蝉丸, also known as "Semimaro", early Heian period poet and musician ; some accounts say he was a son of Uda Tennō, Prince Atsumi, or that he was the fourth son of Daigo Tennō; some claim he lived during the reign of Ninmyō Tennō
• The Six best Waka poets in Japan
• Sugawara no Michizane 菅原道真, also known as "Kan Shōjō" 菅丞相,, Heian Period scholar, poet and politician; grandson of Sugawara no Kiyotomo; also wrote Chinese poetry
• The Tales of Ise

  South Asia

Works

• Approximate date of the text of the Bhagavata Purana
• Asaga's Vardhaman Charitra, written in 853 CE, the first Sanskrit biography of Jain Tirthankara, Mahavir.

  Poets

• Rajasekhara, in Sanskrit
• Asaga, in Sanskrit and Kannada

  Decades and years